different between imminent vs consequent

English

Etymology

From the present participle of Latin immin?re (“to overhang”), from mine? ("to project, overhang"), related to minae (English menace) and mons (English mount). Compare with eminent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?n?nt/ or /??m?n?nt/

Adjective

imminent (comparative more imminent, superlative most imminent)

1. about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

Usage notes

• Imminent and eminent are very similar sounds, and are weak rhymes; in dialects with the pin-pen merger, these become homophones. A typo of either word may result in a correction to the wrong word by spellchecking software. Imminent is also sometimes confused with immanent.
• Said of danger, threat and death.

Synonyms

• inevitable, immediate, impending; see also Thesaurus:impending

Derived terms

• imminence
• imminently

Related terms

• eminent
• prominent

Translations

Further reading

• imminent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• imminent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imminent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• miniment

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin immin?ns (“projecting, overhanging; threatening, menacing”).

Adjective

imminent (masculine and feminine plural imminents)

1. imminent

Derived terms

• imminentment

Related terms

• imminència

Further reading

• “imminent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “imminent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “imminent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “imminent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin immin?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.n??/

Adjective

imminent (feminine singular imminente, masculine plural imminents, feminine plural imminentes)

1. imminent

Derived terms

• expérience de mort imminente
• imminemment

Further reading

• “imminent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

imminent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of immine?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French conséquent , from Latin consequens, consequentem, present participle of consequi (“to follow”), from con- + sequi (“to follow”). Compare French conséquent.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?.kw?nt/

Adjective

consequent (not comparable)

1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.

   His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.

2. Of or pertaining to consequences.

Coordinate terms

• antecedent

Related terms

Translations

Noun

consequent (plural consequents)

1. (logic) The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
2. An event which follows another.
   • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.

3. (mathematics) The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.

Holonyms

• conditional
• See Thesaurus:argument form

Coordinate terms

• antecedent

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French conséquent, from Latin c?nsequ?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n.s??k??nt/
• Hyphenation: con?se?quent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

consequent (not comparable)

1. consequent, resulting
2. logically consistent

Inflection

Related terms

• consequentie