0 If an event or experience is anticlimactic it causes disappointment because it was less exciting than was expected, or happened immediately after a much more exciting event or experience :
There was so much publicity and hype beforehand that the performance itself was a touch anticlimactic.
I thought the movie had a disappointing and anticlimactic ending.
1 causing unhappiness by being less exciting than expected or not as interesting as something that happened earlier:
The announcement of his resignation was anticlimactic, as we all knew he could no longer stay in the job.
After the fun and excitement of the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes race was anticlimactic and dull.
Sunday's win seemed almost anticlimactic after the exciting finish of last week’s match.
I'd looked forward to the show but when it was over it felt pretty anticlimatic.
The history of the relationship between insurance and civil society, as usually told, is an anticlimactic narrative.
His cure seemed anticlimactic after his dramatic description of the symptoms of the disease.
On the other hand, she will be struck by what seems a rather anticlimactic conclusion to a very well argued book.
Indeed, the play's situation was almost bound to be better than its resolution, which by comparison seemed trite and anticlimactic.
However, he criticised some of the action scenes for a lapse into mano-a-mano action-horror clichs and felt that the resolution was anti-climactic.
