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Ultimate vs Consequent - What's the difference?

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Ultimate is a related term of consequent.


As adjectives the difference between ultimate and consequent

is that ultimate is final; last in a series while consequent is acting]] or [[operate|operating in a consistent or logical manner; coherent.

As nouns the difference between ultimate and consequent

is that ultimate is the most basic or fundamental of a set of things while consequent is the second term in various semantic or logical relationship where the first term is called the.

ultimate

English

Adjective

(wikipedia ultimate) (-)
  • Final; last in a series.
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  • (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
  • Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
    • the ultimate pleasure
    the ultimate disappointment
  • *
    • Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  • Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
  • That will happen at some time; eventual.
  • Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
  • * Coleridge
    • those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
  • Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
    • an ultimate constituent of matter

    Antonyms

    * proximate

    Derived terms

    * antepenultimate * penultimate * ultimateness

    Coordinate terms

    * (syllable adjectives)

    Related terms

    * ulterior * ultimatum * ultra * ultra-

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
  • The final or most distant point; the conclusion
  • The greatest extremity; the maximum
  • (uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.

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    consequent

    English

    (wikipedia consequent)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
    • His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.
  • Of or pertaining to consequences.

    • Coordinate terms

    * antecedent

    Related terms

    * consequence * subsequent

    References

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
  • An event which follows another.
  • * Sir J. Davies
    • They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.
  • (math) The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b'' in the ratio ''a:b , the other being the antecedent.

    • Holonyms

    * conditional * See

    Coordinate terms

    * antecedent