Crossword-Solution: ANTICLIMAX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anticlimax | n. | A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “ANTICLIMAX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A letdown, rhetorically speaking. | 1 answer |
| lame end | 1 answer |
| Transition from significance to triviality | 1 answer |
| Poor resolution, say | 1 answer |
| Novelistic disappointment. | 1 answer |
| Not for the summit? | 1 answer |
| Letdown of an ending | 1 answer |
| Letdown of a kind. | 1 answer |
| Letdown after a build-up | 1 answer |
| It goes pfft! | 1 answer |
| Disappointing conclusion | 1 answer |
| *Big letdown | 1 answer |
| "For God, for country, and for Yale." | 1 answer |
| *Disappointing finish | 3 answers |
| Letdown. | 5 answers |
| Bathos | 8 answers |
| A CHANGE FROM A SERIOUS SUBJECT TO A DISAPPOINTING ONE | 11 answers |
| A DISAPPOINTING DECLINE AFTER A PREVIOUS RISE | 11 answers |
| Fiasco | 51 answers |
| frustration | 57 answers |
| Disappointment | 62 answers |
| tame | 66 answers |
| Shortage | 68 answers |
| Fall out | 68 answers |
| failure | 86 answers |
| De-crease? | 90 answers |
| Fall | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ANTICLIMAX (5)
Happily, anticlimax was spared them by the arrival of the person for whom the visitor had asked at the door, and the young man retained the rose in his hand.
Still, he was a little surprised that her father’s eagerness to send him for Grace should have resulted in such an anticlimax as this.
Bruno laughed outright at this characteristic anticlimax, while Professor Featherwit was obliged to smile, even while compelled to correct.
And now, so that there shall be no anticlimax in this story of telephone development, we must turn the spot-light upon that immense aggregation of workshops in which have been made three-fifths of the telephone apparatus of the world--the Western Electric.
And added an anticlimax by passing a plate of sliced jelly roll through the stair rail to the clamoring children.
Quotes with ANTICLIMAX (3)
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
On Christmas morning when the beach is calling and the family’s gathering and the presents are a mystery (or definitely feels book-shaped anyway), and after the splendour and celebration of Christmas Eve, we don’t want Christmas Day to be an anticlimax. We’ve gifted our Oxfam goats or geese and bought our CWS calendars, and what we’d like, on Christmas Day, what we really want, is for things to be — perfect. Just like the old days. Something new, but also something familiar. …
He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work, stopped writing for a period of years. When he came back it was to BLACK MASK and the other detective magazines with a curious and terrible fiction which had never been seen before in the genre markets; Hart Crane and certainly Hemingway were writing of people on the edge of their emotions and their possibility but the genre mystery markets were…
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1957–2024).