anticlimax
nounHow many syllables in anticlimax?
There are 4 syllables in the word anticlimax.How to pronounce anticlimax:
Definition of anticlimax:
- anticlimax (noun):
- an instance of this transition
- a disappointing conclusion to a series of events
- noun. a disappointing decline after a previous rise.
- the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
Synonyms for anticlimax:
aftermath
bathos
climax
coda
comedown
conclusion
consummation
disappointment
downfall
endgame
ending
epilog
epilogue
finale
letdown
postscript
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- undisciplined
- predictable
- Demetrius
- cavalier
- carelessness
- cacophonous
- affinity
- tenuity
- fantastical
- violently
- unevenly
- Gabriella
- composedly
- presidency
- ethnographic
- categorize
- preoccupied
- infallibly
- expectedly
- eight eighty eight
- accordion
- vaticinal
- recollection
- perfunctory
- hilarity
- disentangle
- impotently
- wastebasket
- inventiveness
- adulterine
- mendacious
- inartistic
- escalator
- dementation
- authenticate
- abstemious
- orangutan
- feuillemort
- unextinguished
- obstreperous
- initially
- encapsulate
- absolution
- unanimous
- perpetuate
- indistinctly
- forcefulness
- fanatical
- facilitas
- antagonize
- … more
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