0 an event or experience that causes disappointment because it is less exciting than was expected or because it happens immediately after a much more interesting or exciting event: --
After all the advance publicity and public relations hype, this statement is a sad anticlimax.
He gets left with a sense of emptiness, of anticlimax, almost of frustration.
Such an outcome from the conference must come as a cruel and mocking anticlimax to millions of people all over the world.
This debate has been heralded for so long as "the great debate" that all of us are conscious of the danger of anticlimax.
But it is also a disadvantage because any speech after his is bound to be an anticlimax.
That was rather disappointing to some of our hopes, rather anticlimax in a way.
Probably the events of this afternoon's debate have been one of the biggest anticlimaxes of all.
Then it seemed that the play was going to end in an anticlimax.
