anticlimax
Noun
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A disappointing decline after a previous rise (synset 107442551)
"the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
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A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one (synset 106385614)
part meronym: story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related eventssynonym: bathos
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