resultant

1. 1.

   occurring with or following as a consequence

   “an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems”

   “snags incidental to the changeover in management”

   “attendant circumstances”

   “the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness”

   “the ensuant response to his appeal”

   “the resultant savings were considerable”

   “collateral target damage from a bombing run”

   Synonymsattendantconsequentaccompanyingconcomitantincidentalensuantsequentcollateral

   Similarsubsequent

Other forms of resultant

plural

resultants·

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 resultant

What does resultant mean?

resultant means "the final point in a process". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in resultant?

resultant has 3 syllables: re-sul-tant. The stress falls on "sul". In IPA it is /ɹiˈzʌltənt/.

What is another word for resultant?

Close synonyms include end point, result, final result, outcome, termination. 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 resultant a common word?

resultant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 resultant?

1 word rhymes with resultant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.