hereafter

Other forms of hereafter

plural

hereafters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hereafter

What does hereafter mean?

hereafter means "in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hereafter?

hereafter has 3 syllables: he-reaf-ter. The stress falls on "reaf". In IPA it is /hɪˈɹæftɚ/.

What is another word for hereafter?

Close synonyms include hereinafter, hereunder, afterlife, future, futurity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hereafter a common word?

hereafter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hereafter?

2 words rhyme with hereafter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.