Usually means: Fails to meet expectations, disappointing.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. anticlimactic: Merriam-Webster
  2. anticlimactic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anticlimactic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. anticlimactic: Vocabulary.com
  5. anticlimactic: Wordnik
  6. anticlimactic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. anticlimactic: Wiktionary
  8. anticlimactic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. anticlimactic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. anticlimactic: Dictionary.com
  11. anticlimactic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. anticlimactic: Rhymezone
  13. anticlimactic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. anticlimactic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. anticlimactic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. anticlimactic: Merriam-Webster

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anticlimactic: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anticlimactic)

▸ adjective:  Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.

Similar:
Falling, anticlimactical, anticlimatic, climaxless, underawing, dismal, desultory, abortive, lackluster, uneventful, more...

Opposite:
climactic

Types:
disappointing, underwhelming, unremarkable, anti-climactic, more...

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Similar:
Falling, anticlimactical, anticlimatic, climaxless, underawing, dismal, desultory, abortive, lackluster, uneventful, more...

Opposite:
climactic

Types:
disappointing, underwhelming, unremarkable, anti-climactic, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     olive,     mauve, more...



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