Meanings
- not comparableFollowing, afterwards in either time or place.
As a result of his refusal, the employee was subsequently canned in 2015 on the basis of "professional inadequacy" and failing to embody the "party" atmosphere that the consultancy was trying to cultivate.
2022 November 25, Ben Cost, “Man wins legal right to be 'boring' at work, gets $3K from company”, in New York Post, NYP Holdings, archived from the original on 25 Nov 20222 more examples
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.
1832, John Richardson, chapter 7, in Wacousta, volume II“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.[…]”
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020Synonyms: afterwards, ensuingly
- not comparableAccordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction), consequently.
Synonyms: as a result
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbFollowing, afterwards in either time or place.
adverbAccordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction), consequently.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbhappening at a time subsequent to a reference time
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian после, впоследствие
- после (posle)subsequently
- впоследствие (vposledstvie)subsequently
Catalan subseqüentment
- subseqüentmentsubsequently
Czech následně
- následněsubsequently
Dutch hierop, vervolgens
- hieropsubsequently
- vervolgenssubsequently
Esperanto sekve
- sekvesubsequently
Finnish tämän jälkeen, sitten
- tämän jälkeensubsequently
- sittensubsequently
French ensuite, subséquemment
- ensuitesubsequently
- subséquemmentsubsequently
German anschließend, danach
- anschließendsubsequently
- danachsubsequently
- darauffolgendsubsequently
- daraufhinsubsequently
- hieraufsubsequently
- nachhersubsequently
- nachträglichsubsequently
- darauf folgendsubsequently
- im Anschlusssubsequently
- in der Folgesubsequently
- in der Folgezeitsubsequently
Greek ακολούθως, μεταγενέστερα
- ακολούθως (akoloúthos)subsequently
- μεταγενέστερα (metagenéstera)subsequently
Hungarian utólag
- utólagsubsequently
Norwegian Bokmål deretter, senere
- derettersubsequently
- seneresubsequently
Polish później
- późniejsubsequently
Portuguese subsequentemente
- subsequentementesubsequently
Russian впосле́дствии, затем
- впосле́дствии (vposlédstvii)subsequently
- затем (zatem)subsequently
- позднее (pozdneje)subsequently
- позже (pozže)subsequently
- потом (potom)subsequently
Scottish Gaelic an dèidh sin, an dèidh làimhe
- an dèidh sinsubsequently
- an dèidh làimhesubsequently
Spanish posteriormente
- posteriormentesubsequently
Swedish sedan
- sedansubsequently
Tamil பின்பு, பின்னர்
- பின்பு (piṉpu)subsequently
- பின்னர் (piṉṉar)subsequently
Turkish akabinde, arkadan
- akabindesubsequently
- arkadansubsequently
- bilaharesubsequently
- daha sonrasubsequently
- müteakipsubsequently
- sonrasubsequently
- sonra gelensubsequently
- sonradansubsequently
- sonradan gelensubsequently
- sonrakisubsequently
- sonradan ortaya çıkansubsequently
- (anlaşma) sonuç olarak izleyensubsequently
Cite this entry
subsequently. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subsequently
“subsequently.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subsequently. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subsequently,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subsequently.
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