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anticlimax
(encz) | anticlimax,rozčarování |
anticlimax
(encz) | anticlimax,vystřízlivění |
Anticlimax
(gcide) | Anticlimax \An`ti*cli"max\, n. (Rhet.)
A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important
and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It
produces a ridiculous effect.
Note: Example:
Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war,
Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl of Mar.
[1913 Webster] |
anticlimax
(wn) | anticlimax
n 1: a disappointing decline after a previous rise; "the
anticlimax of a brilliant career"
2: a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one [syn:
anticlimax, bathos] |
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Anticlimax
(gcide) | Anticlimax \An`ti*cli"max\, n. (Rhet.)
A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important
and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It
produces a ridiculous effect.
Note: Example:
Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war,
Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl of Mar.
[1913 Webster] |
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