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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

विपरीत चरम

Pronunciation / Transliteration: vipreet charam

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Anticlimax/ˈæn.tiˌklaɪ.mæks/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"फिल्म का अंत विपरीत चरम पर हुआ।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events.

    "The movie built up to an anticlimax, leaving the audience unsatisfied."
  2. 2

    A rhetorical device in which a significant idea is followed by a trivial one.

    "The speech was filled with anticlimaxes that undermined its overall impact."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from modern Latin anti- (against, opposite of) combined with climax, which entered English in the late 16th century via Greek klimax meaning 'ladder' or 'stairs'. The term 'anticlimax' was coined in the mid-17th century in rhetoric to describe a sentence in which the ideas descend in order of importance, later expanding into general usage to signify any disappointing end to a series of exciting events.

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