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anticlimax
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anticlimax

Disappointing conclusion or sudden descent from the important to the trivial, for example, the placing of the least impressive item last in a list or sequence. Anticlimax is often used in literature as comedy but can have a serious side, particularly in tragedy or tragicomedy, when characters meet their deaths pathetically.



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