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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | consecutive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in sequence |
| Synonyms: | after, chronological, connected, constant, continuing, continuous, ensuing, following, going on, in order, in turn, increasing, later, logical, numerical, one after another, progressive, running, sequent, sequential, serial, serialized, seriate, seriatim, succedent, succeeding, successional, successive, understandable, uninterrupted |
| Antonyms: | broken, discontinuous, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, unconsecutive |
| Main Entry: | consequent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resultant |
| Synonyms: | consistent, ensuing, following, indirect, inferable, intelligent, logical, rational, reasonable, resulting, sensible, sequential, sound, subsequent, successive, understandable |
| Antonyms: | beginning, causal, commencing, originating, preparatory, starting |
| Main Entry: | deducible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understandable |
| Synonyms: | a priori, consequent, deductive, derivable, dogmatic, following, inferable, inferential, provable, reasoned, traceable |
| Main Entry: | ensuing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resultant |
| Synonyms: | after, coming, coming up, consequent, consequential, following, later, next, next off, posterior, postliminary, subsequent, subsequential |
| Antonyms: | antecedent, preceding |
| Main Entry: | imitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | artful, copied, copycat, copying, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, echoic, emulative, emulous, following, forged, mimetic, mimic, mimicking, mock, onomatopoeic, parrot, plagiarized, pseudo*, put-on, reflecting, reflective, secondhand, sham*, simulant |
| Antonyms: | different, genuine, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imminent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at hand, on the way |
| Synonyms: | about to happen, approaching, brewing, close, coming, expectant, fast-approaching, following, forthcoming, gathering, handwriting-on-the-wall, immediate, impending, in store, in the air, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, likely, looming, menacing, near, nearing, next, nigh, on its way, on the horizon, on the verge, overhanging, possible, probable, see it coming, threatening, to come, unavoidable, unescapable |
| Notes: | if you mean 'famous' or 'superior,' you want eminent; if you mean 'impending, about to happen' that is imminent; and if you mean 'present, inherent,' your word is immanent imminent is 'about to happen' and immanent is 'inherent' or 'pervading the material world' |
| Antonyms: | distant, doubtful, far, future, later |
| Main Entry: | later |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming after |
| Synonyms: | downstream, ensuing, following, more recent, next, posterior, postliminary, proximate, subsequent, subsequential, succeeding, ulterior |
| Antonyms: | before, earlier |
| Main Entry: | latter |
| 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 |
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