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anticlimactical

anticlimactical is the alternative form of anticlimactic.

Meaning of anticlimactic

Adjective

anticlimactic (comparative more anticlimactic, superlative most anticlimactic)

  1. Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.
    • After all the build up, the ending of the story was an anticlimactic letdown.

Forms of anticlimactical

comparativemore anticlimactical
superlativemost anticlimactical

Origin of anticlimactical

From anti- + climactical.

Questions about anticlimactical

What is anticlimactical the alternative form of?
Anticlimactical is the alternative form of anticlimactic.

Words near anticlimactical in the dictionary

  1. anticlericalists
  2. anticlericals
  3. anticlerics
  4. Anticlia
  5. anticlimactic
  6. anticlimactical
  7. anticlimactically
  8. anticlimatic
  9. anticlimax
  10. anticlimaxes
  11. anticlimb

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