anticlimax
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1 anticlimax
A disappointing decline after a previous rise.
Roget 36: decrease, diminution; lessening etc. v.; subtraction etc. 38; reduction, abatement, declension; shrinking etc. (contraction.) ... meer laten zien
Roget 509: disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation ... meer laten zien
2 anticlimax
A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.
synoniem: bathos.
Roget 497: absurdity, absurdness etc. adj.; imbecility etc. 499; alogy†, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy†, ... meer laten zien
Roget 853: ridiculousness etc. adj.; comicality, oddity etc. adj.; extravagance, drollery. farce, comedy; burlesque etc. (ridicule) ... meer laten zien
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