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- pronunciation:
- kan
s
kwnt
- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
following as a consequence or result.
The explosion and the consequent deaths and injuries were blamed on the negligence of the company's officials.Many bomb victims developed cancer consequent to radiation exposure.- similar words:
- attendant
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| definition 2: |
following as a logical conclusion; logically consistent or correct.
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| related words: |
following, natural, subsequent |
(adj.)consequent
+ noun
achievement,
adjustment,
assertion,
behavior,
breakdown,
condition,
consumption,
creation,
crisis,
criticism,
damage,
decline,
degradation,
demand,
desire,
destruction,
deterioration,
difficulty,
dissolution,
effect,
emergence,
employment,
equality,
error,
establishment,
event,
expansion,
feeling,
identity,
impact,
inability,
increase,
influence,
injury,
interpretation,
judgment,
labor,
lack,
learning,
loss,
nature,
need,
orientation,
phrase,
pollution,
preference,
production,
protection,
quality,
redemption,
reduction,
rejection,
religion,
removal,
rise,
risk,
shift,
spread,
stigma,
stimulus,
stream,
substance,
suffering,
tension,
threat,
transformation,
uncertainty,
unemployment,
use,
validity,
variable
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
anything that follows as a consequence.
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The word consequent
contains the following parts:
con-
Latin
prefix
that means with, together
  More about this word part:
The prefix con-
is an assimilated form of com- used before roots beginning with c, d, f, g, j, n, s, t, and v. See com-. Note: con-
is frequently an intensive prefix, as in " conceive
."
Example words:
conceive, concentrate, concentric, conclude, conclusion, condone, conduce, conducive, conduct, conductive, conduction, confer, conference, confidant, confide, confidence, confident, confine, confirm, conflict, confluence, conflux, conform, confuse, confusion, congener, congratulate, congregate, congress, conjecture, conjunct, conjunction, conjunctiva, connect, connote, conscript, conscription, consign, consonant, conspiracy, constant, constrain, construct, construction, contact, contain, container, context, continue, contract, conversant, convince, convict, conviction, convivial, convocation, convoke, inconceivable, inconsonant, inconspicuous, connotation, consequence, consequent
sequi, secut, seque
Latin
root
that means to follow
Example words:
-ant, -ent
Latin
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means (in adjectives) doing the action denoted by the verb root; (in nouns) one who or that which does the action denoted by the verb root.
More about this word part:
The suffix -ant
, -ent
forms adjectives and, to a much lesser extent, nouns from Latin verb stems such as fid in confident
and stud in student
. This suffix is the equivalent in Latin of the "-ing" inflection in English. Many adjectives ending in -ant
, -ent
have a corresponding noun ending in -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency.
Example words:
aberrant, accident, accidental, adherent, adjacent, affluent, agent, alterant, ambient, antecedent, applicant, arrogant, benevolent, coherent, combatant, complacent, confidant, confident, consequent, consultant, continent, conversant, current, defoliant, dependent, different, disinfectant, dissonant, dominant, efficient, eloquent, equilibrant, exorbitant, extravagant, fluent, hydrant, ignorant, important, inadvertent, incessant, incognizant, inconsonant, indignant, informant, itinerant, malevolent, miscreant, parent, participant, patient, precedent, predominant, president, prudent, pungent, recreant, reluctant, repugnant, resident, resonant, servant, significant, student, tenant, transcendent, vacant, vagrant, variant, verdant
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