[C,U] a situation that is disappointing because it happens at the end of sth that was much more exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected:
Travelling in Europe was something of an anticlimax after the years he'd spent in Africa. * a sense / feeling of anticlimax
compareCLIMAX
anticlimactic adjective
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