subsequent

Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.

Adjective

  1. 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...
  2. Following in order of place; succeeding.
  3. 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. - 1895, William Morris Davis, “The Development of Certain...

Origin

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

Synonyms

next following after later subsequent posterior succeeding successor ulterior

Antonyms

preceding current former

Hyponyms

future

Derived

condition subsequent fee simple subject to condition subsequent subsequential subsequently subsequentness

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. - 1899, Sydney...

Forms

subsequents