eventual

Speech parts

1. eventual - Adjective

2. eventual - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

soon-to-be later last possible final late likely future eventually latter finally secondary subsequent coming ultimately

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Antonyms

ultimo first last early end final

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Phrases with the word

eventual cause eventual result eventual user eventual outcome eventual euthanasia eventual name

Examples

There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want. E. B. White

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ. Kenneth Scott Latourette

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance. Alan Hirsch

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. Jean Dubuffet

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. Milton Babbitt

Everything's eventual. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

eventration eventscape eventtual eventual cause eventual euthanasia eventual name