Aftermath

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A consequence, especially of a disaster or misfortune: famine as an aftermath of drought.
  • n. A period of time following a disastrous event: in the aftermath of war.
  • n. A second growth or crop in the same season, as of grass after mowing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. , or farmers' jargon: A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
  • n. Hence; that which happens after, that which follows. Has a strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A second mowing of grass from the same land in the same season. Also called lattermath, rowen, or rowett, and in some places, when left long on the ground, fog.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
  • n. the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    result    effect    event    issue    consequence    outcome    upshot   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rowen    aftergrowth    eddish    rowet    fog    aftercrop   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wake    throes    brunt    midst    verge    suddenness    eve    outbreak    likelihood    tidings