Consequent
['kɒnsɪkw(ə)nt] or ['kɑnsəkwənt]
Definition
(a.) Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
(a.) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.
(n.) That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
(n.) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
(n.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Following, consequential.[2]. Deducible, INFERABLE.
n. [1]. Effect.[2]. Deduction, conclusion, inference.
Typist: Preston
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inferred, deduced, resultant, accruing, attendant
ANT:Assumed, conjectured, antecedent, conducive, productive, inconsequent
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Examples
- And apart from such steps and the consequent modification of the situation, there is no completion of the act of thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Every variation in the speaker's voice is repeated in the vibrations of the metal disk and hence in the minute motion of the pointer and in the consequent record on the cylinder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But intellectual growth means constant expansion of horizons and consequent formation of new purposes and new responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Accordingly the consequences of the theory were only such as were consequent upon the lack of an experimental method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The entrance of the Judge, and a consequent great stir and settling down in the court, stopped the dialogue. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And I had heard of the death of her husband, from an accident consequent on his ill-treatment of a horse. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But the pressure of the escape-wheel against the detent, and the consequent friction, prevent the pendulum from acting freely. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Consequent, will the T'other Governor be so good as chuck me his name and where he lives? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The consequent rise of all money prices, though it does not make those who receive them really richer, does not make them really poorer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When the first faintness consequent on having moved about had left him, he subsided into his former state. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This insures complete and perfect contact and consequent electrical conductivity throughout the entire unit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This involved some slipping and consequent burning of belts; also, if the belt were prematurely tightened, the burning-out of the armature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The fall of Carthage, and the consequent elevation of Rome, is the second. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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