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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a disappointing decline after a previous rise;
- Example: "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"

2. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one;
[syn: anticlimax, bathos]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anticlimax \An`ti*cli"max\, n. (Rhet.)
   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.

   Note: Example:

               Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war,
               Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl of Mar.
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