Subsequent vs Subsequently - What's the difference?
subsequent | subsequently | Derived terms |
Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
Following in order of place; succeeding.
Following, afterwards in either time or place.
Accordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction).
Subsequently is a related term of subsequent.
Subsequently is a derived term of subsequent.
As an adjective subsequent
is following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.As an adverb subsequently is
following, afterwards in either time or place.subsequent
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Adjective
(-)- 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.
Derived terms
* subsequentlysubsequently
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Adverb
(-)Usage notes
Although subsequently may imply a cause and effect relationship, it may also be used when no cause is implied.Quotations
* 1832 — , volume II, chapter 7 *: It will be recollected that the ill-fated Halloway...distinctly stated the voice of the individual who had approached his post...to have been that of a female, and that the language in which they subsequently conversed was that of the Ottawa Indians. * {{quote-book, year=1905, author= , title= , chapter=1citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}