anticlimax
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a disappointing decline after a previous rise
the anticlimax of a brilliant career
Types & categories
- downfall hypernym
Related & opposite
- anticlimactic derivation
Sense 2 noun
a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
Types & categories
- close hypernym
Parts & wholes
- story part holonym
Related & opposite
- anticlimactic derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | anticlimactic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | downfall |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | anticlimactic |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | story |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | close |