consequence

Etymology
From, from , from. While analysable as en, its adjective form has a different origin.

Noun

 * 1) An effect; something that follows a cause as a result.
 * 2) An unwanted or unpleasant effect.
 * 3) consecution; chain of causes and effects.
 * 4) conclusion, deduction or inference; the thing concluded.
 * 5)  Importance, influence, or significance.
 * 1) consecution; chain of causes and effects.
 * 2) conclusion, deduction or inference; the thing concluded.
 * 3)  Importance, influence, or significance.

Collocations

 * social consequence
 * legal consequence
 * environmental consequence
 * political consequence
 * economic consequence
 * personal consequence
 * cultural consequence
 * moral consequence


 * unintended consequence
 * undesirable consequence
 * likely consequence
 * probable consequence
 * necessary consequence
 * logical consequence
 * natural consequence
 * important consequence
 * significant consequence
 * bad consequence
 * disastrous consequence
 * devastating consequence
 * fatal consequence
 * catastrophic consequence
 * harmful consequence

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: عَاقِبَة, نَتِيجَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: насту́пства
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: sekvo,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: შედეგი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: iarmhairt
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: нәтиже
 * Khmer: ផលវិបាក,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: натыйжа
 * Lao: ຜົນ
 * Latin: cōnsequentia
 * Macedonian: последица
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: finta
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: buil, èifeachd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀следица, по̀сљедица
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: dôsledok, následok
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ,
 * Thai:, , วิบาก
 * Tocharian B: oko
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: netije
 * Ukrainian: на́слідок, на́слід
 * Urdu: نتیجہ
 * Uyghur: ئاقىۋەت
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: عَاقِبَة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, bagslag
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sekvo
 * Finnish: jälkiseuraus,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: iarmhairt
 * Kazakh: салдар
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: buil, èifeachd, toradh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tocharian B: oko
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: syy-seurausketju


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: влия́телност
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Telugu:

Verb

 * 1)  To threaten or punish (a child, etc.) with specific consequences for misbehaviour.