Both Uses
anticlimax
in
This Side of Paradise
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- What had seemed a melancholy happening, now seemed a tiresome anticlimax.†
Chpt 1.3 *anticlimax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
- One really plays around so much before one is seventeen, that it's positively anticlimax.†
Chpt 2.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(anticlimax) a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)