consequentlyadverb
uk/ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwənt.li/us/ˈkɑːn.sə.kwənt.li/B2 as a result:
I spent most of my money in the first week and consequently had very little to eat by the end of the holiday.
More examples
- All the shops were closed, and consequently we couldn't buy any food.
- Doctors are short of time to listen and consequently tend to prescribe drugs whenever they can.
- There is inadequate childcare provision and consequently many women who wish to work are unable to do so.
- The company is trying to reduce its costs; consequently, staff who leave are not being replaced.
- His explanation was full of technical jargon. Consequently, nobody understood it at all!
- She is always bad-tempered, and consequently doesn't have many friends.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: connecting words joining words or phrases with similar or related meanings
- and/or 2
- anyways
- concatenate
- conjunctive
- connective
- ergo
- hence
- hereby
- mean
- moreover
- never
- now
- OK
- so
- sure enough idiom
- the thing is idiom
- there
- thing
- what
- with that idiom
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