anticlimactical

1. 1.

   of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style

   Synonymsanticlimactic

Questions about anticlimactical

What does anticlimactical mean?

anticlimactical means "of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style".

How many syllables are in anticlimactical?

anticlimactical has 6 syllables and divides as an-ti-cli-mac-ti-cal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for anticlimactical?

Close synonyms include anticlimactic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anticlimactical a common word?

anticlimactical is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.