Meaning

Alternative spelling of anticlimax..

Example Sentences

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.

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.

We never had the pleasure of hearing the noble Lord; but we have no difficulty in recognising in the pages, now before us, the eloquent platitudes and brilliant anti-climaces with which the learned editor has so often favoured peccant audiences.

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.

Anti-climax, though a defect, is to be preferred to an end that is distorted in order to achieve emphasis. In an older day there was such a dread of anti-climax and such a passion for “a curtain” that, whether probable or not, their comedies ended with marriages all around and their tragedies with as much death as possible.

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?

As Liverpool's players slumped to the turf, with Trent Alexander-Arnold standing motionless for several minutes, manager Jurgen Klopp and his players will reflect on an outstanding campaign that brought two trophies but also ended in undoubted anti-climax.

Word Forms

• anti-climaxes
• anti-climaces

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When Should You Use Anti-climax?

Use anti-climax when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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