resultant
adjective/rɪˈzʌltənt/
/rɪˈzʌltənt/
[only before noun] (formal)- caused by the thing that has just been mentioned
- the growing economic crisis and resultant unemployment
Extra Examples- The resultant chemical structure is flexible.
- We deplore the use of force and the resultant loss of life.
- lower taxation and the resultant increase in spending
- the war and the resultant loss of life
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the adjectival sense): from Latin resultant- ‘springing back’, from the verb resultare ‘to result’, earlier in the sense ‘spring back’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + saltare (frequentative of salire ‘to jump’).
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