consequent

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 5.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.

   His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.

2. adjective Of or pertaining to consequences.
3. adjective Of a stream, having a course determined by the slope it formed on.
4. noun The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
5. noun An event which follows another.
6. noun The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.
7. noun A consequent stream.

Similar words

ensuant resultant sequent subsequent resulting consequential follow-up therefore ensuing consecutive

Often followed by

upon on to loss increase reduction of need lack

Word family

consequence consequences consequently consequents