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Noun: anticlimax  `an-ti'klI-maks
  1. A disappointing decline after a previous rise
    "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
     
  2. A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
    - bathos

Derived forms: anticlimaxes

See also: anticlimactic

Type of: close, closing, conclusion, downfall, end, ending, fall

Part of: story

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