Resulting

Part of speech: adjective

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzʌltɪŋ/

Definitions

1. Evolving as a product of past events or decisions
2. Happening as an effect from previous actions or causes
3. Developing as an outcome following certain conditions or events

Etymology: The most surprising thing about "resulting" is how physical its ancestor was. Its root is Classical Latin "resultare," meaning "to spring forward" or "to rebound," built from "re-" (back) and "salire" (to jump, leap). Picture a ball bouncing off a wall, or a wave rebounding off a rock: that is the image the word began with. The Latin "resilire," to rebound, is the same family that gives English "resile," to spring back. The leap from bouncing to consequence happened gradually in Medieval Latin, where "resultare" came to mean something coming back or arising from an action, like an outcome rebounding onto the people who caused it. English borrowed the verb as "resulten" in the 1400s, and the sense of an effect following from a cause was already part of it by then. The adjective "resulting" describes whatever follows from earlier actions or causes. The physical bounce has become entirely metaphorical: the consequence is pictured as returning to its source, the way a jumping object returns to the ground.

Synonyms: ensuing, following, subsequent, consequential, outcoming

Antonyms: preceding, antecedent, prior