| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | latest, concluding |
| Synonyms: | closing, eventual, final, following, hindmost, lag, last, last-mentioned, later, modern, rearmost, recent, second, terminal |
| Notes: | last is the lowest in an ordering or series while latter means referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned latter means referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned; former means referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned |
| Antonyms: | earliest, former, preceding |
| Main Entry: | late |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new |
| Synonyms: | advanced, fresh, just out, modern, recent |
| Antonyms: | antique, old, old-fashioned |
| Main Entry: | late |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bygone, cold, deceased, defunct, departed, erstwhile, ex-, exanimate, extinct, former, inanimate, lifeless, old, once, onetime, past, preceding, previous, quondam, sometime |
| Antonyms: | live |
| Main Entry: | eventual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future, concluding |
| Synonyms: | closing, conditional, consequent, contingent, dependent, down the pike, down the road, ending, endmost, ensuing, final, hindmost, in the cards, indirect, inevitable, last, later, latter, overall, possible, prospective, resulting, secondary, succeeding, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, vicarious |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | final |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ending, last |
| Synonyms: | closing, concluding, crowning, end, eventual, finishing, hindmost, lag, last-minute, latest, latter, supreme, terminal, terminating, ultimate |
| Notes: | final means occurring at or forming an end or not to be altered or undone, while a finale is the concluding part of any performance |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencing, first, opening, starting |
| Main Entry: | following |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening, being next or after |
| Synonyms: | a while later, after a while, afterward, attendant, back, by and by, coming, coming after, coming next, consecutive, consequent, consequential, directly after, ensuing, henceforth, hinder, in pursuit, in search of, in the wake of, later, later on, latter, next, next off, on the scent, posterior, presently, proximate, pursuing, rear, resulting, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, specified, subsequent, succeeding, successive, supervenient, then, trailing, when |
| Antonyms: | first, leading, preceding |
| Main Entry: | posterior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | subsequent |
| Synonyms: | after, coming after, ensuing, following, later, latter, next, postliminary, subsequential, succeeding |
| Notes: | anterior/ventral means 'front, situated at the front' and posterior/dorsal means 'rear, situated at the rear' |
| Antonyms: | front, preceding, previous |
| Main Entry: | terminal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | final, deadly |
| Synonyms: | bounding, check out*, closing, concluding, eventual, extreme, fatal, hindmost, incurable, killing, lag, last, latest, latter, lethal, limiting, mortal, on way out, period, ultimate, utmost |
| Notes: | a terminus is simply the end or conclusion of something, but a terminal is a structure or installation erected at a terminus |
| Antonyms: | beginning, initial, opening, reviving, starting |
| Main Entry: | ultimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | last, final |
| Synonyms: | capping, chips down, closing, concluding, conclusive, decisive, end, eventual, extreme, far out, farthermost, farthest, final curtain, furthermost, furthest, hindmost, latest, latter, lattermost, most distant, terminal |
| Antonyms: | beginning, first, introductory, opening |