anticlimax

anticlimax is a 10-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 25 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

   Synonyms: bathos

3. noun. a disappointing decline after a previous rise

   "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"

Synonyms

bathos

Common word forms

anticlimaxes

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