Synonyms of the word anticlimax


ANTICLIMAXBATHOS - CLOSE - CLOSING - CONCLUSION - DOWNFALL - END - ENDING - FALL

anticlimax

  • n. A failed or reverse climax, particularly.

bathos

  • n. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
  • n. (now uncommon) Depth.
  • n. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly…
  • n. (literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
  • n. (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

close

  • v. (physical) To remove a gap.
  • v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
  • v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
  • v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
  • n. An end or conclusion.
  • n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
  • n. A grapple in wrestling.
  • n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
  • n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
  • adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
  • adj. Narrow; confined.
  • adj. At a little distance; near.
  • adj. Intimate; well-loved.
  • adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
  • adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
  • adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
  • adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
  • adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
  • adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
  • adj. Short.
  • adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
  • adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
  • adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
  • adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
  • adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
  • adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
  • adj. Marked, evident.
  • n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
  • n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
  • n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
  • n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
  • n. A cathedral close.
  • n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

closing

  • n. The act by which something is closed.
  • n. The end or conclusion of something.
  • n. The final procedure in a house sale when documents are signed and recorded.
  • adj. Coming after all others.
  • v. present participle of close.

conclusion

  • n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
  • n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
  • n. A decision reached after careful thought.
  • n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
  • n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
  • n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
  • n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

downfall

  • n. A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
  • n. The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
  • n. An act of falling down.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall down; deteriorate; decline.

end

  • n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
  • n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
  • n. Death, especially miserable.
  • n. Result.
  • n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
  • n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
  • n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
  • n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  • n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
  • n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
  • n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
  • v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

ending

  • v. present participle of end.
  • n. A termination or conclusion.
  • n. The last part of something.
  • n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

fall

  • n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
  • n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
  • n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
  • n. A loss of greatness or status.
  • n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
  • n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
  • n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
  • n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
  • n. See falls.
  • n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
  • v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
  • v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
  • v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
  • v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
  • v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
  • v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
  • v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
  • v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
  • v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

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