"anticlimax" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

A disappointing decline after a previous rise (synset 107442551)
"the anticlimax of a brilliant career"

hypernym: downfall, fall - a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one (synset 106385614)
hypernym: close, closing, conclusion, end, ending - the last section of a communication

part meronym: story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events

synonym: bathos

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