Anticlimax

[æntɪ'klaɪmæks] or [,æntɪ'klaɪmæks]

Definition

(noun.) a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.

(noun.) a disappointing decline after a previous rise; 'the anticlimax of a brilliant career'.

Editor: Wilma--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

Typed by Ethan

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Bathos.

Typed by Erica

Definition

n. the opposite of climax: a sentence in which the ideas become less important towards the close: also of any descent as against a previous rise—e.g. Waller's