eventual
adjective/ɪˈventʃuəl/
/ɪˈventʃuəl/
[only before noun]- happening at the end of a period of time or of a process
- the eventual winner of the tournament
- It is impossible to predict what the eventual outcome will be.
- The village school may face eventual closure.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEventual is used with these nouns:- aim
- closure
- demise
- …
More Like This Adjectives that only come before a nounAdjectives that only come before a nounWord Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to an event or events’): from Latin eventus (from evenire ‘result, happen’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + venire ‘come’), on the pattern of actual.Want to learn more?
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