anticlimactic, a.
(ˌæntɪklaɪˈmæktɪk)
[f. anticlimax, after climactic a.]
Of the nature of an anticlimax. So ˌanticliˈmactically adv.
| 1898 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/3 That sounds a little anticlimactic. 1915 W. J. Locke Jaffery xix, I urged, somewhat anticlima[c]tically after my impassioned harangue [etc.]. 1917 McKenna Sonia i. 37 He began valiantly enough, and then anticlimactically as he caught sight of me, ‘What d'you want?’ 1941 J. C. Ransom New Criticism i. 100 When the artist works over the practical failures in human life, and the ambiguous anticlimactic half-successes. |