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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anticlimactic

also anti-climactic, 1831; see anticlimax + -ic.

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anticlimactic

a. Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.

WordNet
anticlimactic

  1. adj. of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style [syn: anticlimactical]

  2. coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot; "everything after the discovery of the murderer was anticlimactic" [ant: climactic]

Usage examples of "anticlimactic".

If the story had ended at this point, it would have seemed rather anticlimactic and dull: Boy has problem, boy works on problem, boy solves problem.

Quite an anticlimactic ending for what Bronwyn was beginning to regard as a promisingly perilous adventure.