subsequent

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Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
25
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/
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/ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/ · /ˈsʌbsəkwənt/

Definition of subsequent

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
    “Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.”
    “In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
    “Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.”
    “In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.”
  2. (not-comparable)Following in order of place; succeeding.
  3. (not-comparable)Following a line in the earth that is more easily eroded.
    “The peculiar position of the subsequent Derwent, close to the sea, suggests some glacial interference with normal adjustments, and calls for special explanation.”

noun

  1. A subsequent stream or faultline.
    “When the Middle Wye was turned into the Severn system it still continued the northward subsequent, which of course may have been initiated as a tributary when the Middle Wye belonged to the Thames system.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French subséquent, from Latin subsequentis, form of subsequēns, present participle of subsequor (“to follow, to succeed”).

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