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Synonyms & Antonyms of consequence
1
a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
- the flood was an inevitable consequence of the prolonged, heavy rains
Synonyms for consequence
- aftereffect,
- aftermath,
- backwash,
- child,
- conclusion,
- corollary,
- development,
- effect,
- fate,
- fruit,
- issue,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- precipitate,
- product,
- result,
- resultant,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- upshot
Words Related to consequence
- denouement
- (also dénouement),
- echo,
- implication,
- repercussion
- blowback,
- by-product,
- fallout,
- offshoot,
- ripple,
- side effect
- (also side reaction),
- spin-off
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2
the quality or state of being important
- a mistake that was of no great consequence
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3
an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims
- a junior executive who strutted around the office with all of the consequence of a peacock in pinstripes
Synonyms for consequence
- arrogance,
- assumption,
- bumptiousness,
- haughtiness,
- hauteur,
- high horse,
- huffiness,
- imperiousness,
- loftiness,
- lordliness,
- masterfulness,
- peremptoriness,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- presumptuousness,
- pretense
- (or pretence),
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- self-consequence,
- self-importance,
- superciliousness,
- superiority,
- toploftiness
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- chest-thumping,
- inflation,
- self-assertion,
- side
- [chiefly British],
- snobbery,
- snobbishness,
- snobbism,
- snootiness
- boastfulness,
- bombast,
- braggadocio,
- bravado,
- strut,
- swagger,
- triumphalism,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory
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4
an opinion arrived at through a process of reasoning
- I am able to deduce several consequences from those premises
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The first known use of consequence was in the 14th century
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