Following as an effect or result, or as a necessary inference; having a relation of sequence: with on, or rarely to: as, the war and the consequent poverty; the poverty consequent on the war.Following in time; subsequent.Characterized by correctness of inference or connectedness of reasoning; logical: as, a consequent action.n. Effect or result; that which proceeds from a cause; outcome.n. In logic: That member of a hypothetical proposition which contains the conclusion. See antecedent. The conclusion of a consequence, or necessary inference conceived as consisting of an antecedent (or premise) and a consequent (or conclusion), and as governed by a consequence (or principle of consecution).n. 3. In music, same as comes, 3.In physical geography, resulting directly from original conditions; having a course determined by the form or slope of an initial land-surface: as, a consequent divide, consequent drainage, a consequent river, a consequent valley, etc. Contrasted with insequent, 2, obsequent, 2, antecedent, 2.