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• a  of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style
• a  coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot
  everything after the discovery of the murderer was anticlimactic

• That verdict, after the hoopla and spiraling speculation over Brown's future, was anticlimactic.
• The final act in this great morality play was anticlimactic: House Armed Services Committee chairman Mendel Rivers, desiring to protect both one of his constituents who was among .
• Instead the winners were announced by TV gossip-show hosts in an anticlimactic 30 minute event.

• anticlimactical

• climactic

News & Articles

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• Packers RB Alex Green has healthy amount of hope
  Alex Green’s return from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee did not follow Adrian Peterson’s Hollywood narrative. Far from it. Whereas Peterson threatened the NFL rushing record, Green’s 2012 season consisted of throbbing, miserable mornings, frustration on Sundays and an anticlimactic limp to the finish line.
  June 15, 2013 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quotes

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• Alex Rodriguez in USA Today
  It's obviously a little anticlimactic. You want to get the first one in,Alex Rodriguez said. "Just have to wait."
• Roger Goodell in USA Today
  In an interview with the AP last month, commissioner Roger Goodell called the game "a somewhat anticlimactic" ending to each season.
• RA Dickey in ESPN
  It's kind of anticlimactic,Dickey said after limiting the Nationals to a pair of unearned runs in seven innings and getting deprived of his seventh win. "Not that he's not good. He's very good. But I felt like the ball was going to be...