ENSUING Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

ensuing 1 of 2

adjective

as in next

being the one that comes immediately after another business was slow in the restaurant's first year, but the ensuing year saw a much-needed increase

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as in subsequent

being, occurring, or carried out at a time after something else the war and the ensuing famine caused unimaginable suffering

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ensuing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of ensue

as in replacing

to come at a later time; to happen as a result When the news broke, a long period of chaos ensued.

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Oswego tied the game on its ensuing drive and pulled ahead in the second quarter for a 21-13 lead. — Jerry Birchfield, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026 The ensuing torrent of ice and rock created a wall of water that slammed into towns and villages that sat on the riverbank, decimating infrastructure and housing. — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 The ensuing insults launched between Shapiro and Kennedy happened both on social media and during separate press conferences this week. — Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026 The ensuing win stanched the wounds, as names like Mark Cuban and Cooper Flagg sat among the second-largest crowd ever to watch a Wings home game. — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026 The Dream failed to score on their ensuing possession and the Sky hit two free throws after an intentional foul. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 The ensuing fifty-one-day standoff ended in a catastrophic fire, killing seventy-six Davidians including Koresh, twenty-five children, and many who had been shot or trapped inside. — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026 Trillions of dollars flowed into those products in the ensuing decades, but bank deposits are higher than ever. — Omid Malekan, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026 Punter Corliss Waitman assumed kickoff duties in the fourth quarter, and Nick Martin forced a fumble on the Chargers’ ensuing return, with Hodge recovering the loose ball. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ensuing

Adjective

ProLogium’s approach is to carry manufacturing knowledge, equipment, and process improvements from one battery generation to the next instead of starting over at each stage.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
With intermittent rain in the forecast over the next week, some sessions could be rescheduled or delayed for hours, corralling fans and shortening the time players have to recover for their next round.

— Aaron Short, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of next

Adjective

Its subsequent launches picked up on the theme and ran with it, and its latest build takes the most extreme tack yet.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026
The threat of shattered glass if the bottle breaks, the subsequent odor suffusing all the items in your carryon, liquids seeping dangerously close to electronics—none of it sounds like a good idea.

— Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of subsequent

Verb

Dublin underdogs have won 75% of the past four openers, but four games are nowhere near enough to justify replacing the market estimate with that historical rate.

— Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Conservation efforts have included replacing cattle with free-ranging bison, restoring Rio Grande cutthroat trout habitat, and using prescribed fire and forest management to improve ecosystem health.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of replacing

Adjective

Two more lottery players won big following Wednesday night's Powerball drawing.

— Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Geno Segers is breaking his silence after being fired from Broadway’s Hadestown following backlash over resurfaced transgender comments.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of following

Adjective

But others indicate machinist Matthew Maguire, later secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, New Jersey, first proposed the holiday, also in 1882.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Navarrete’s other two virtual hearings of the morning ended similarly, with the client ordered back at a later date.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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