Anti-climax
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Anti-climax is a noun meaning Alternative spelling of anticlimax.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of anticlimax.
Example Sentences
Tomorrow I go into St Mary’s Paddington for an operation. I am frightened. No, I am not frightened. Yes, I am. Anti-climax of anti-climaxes. Or should it be anti-climaces?
Such messages or symbolic significances as Cawein’s poems contain usually are slight things, added, it often seems as afterthoughts, sometimes they mar the poems with anti-climaces.
Allowing for the confusion of a first night, the dialogue is eminently weak and slipshod; anti-climaces abound, and the ridiculous and the sentimental are too often blended together unintentionally.
These tautologies and anti-climaces were too much for the colonel, and we are ashamed to say that he committed himself by publishing in the Commercial an indignant denial of ever having indited such an epistle.
Word Forms
- anti-climaxes
- anti-climaces
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include denouement, anti-novel, apokatastasis, nonsequitur, antistory, counter-finality.
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