aftereffect

Examples

• All

• The doctor explained the potential aftereffects of the medication, including fatigue and headaches.

• However, while some individuals are immune to aftereffects, others later develop red welts that itch and burn.

  Academic text (1991)

• Though maybe that was just the aftereffect of the tears in her eyes.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The "dancing eyes" seem also to be an aftereffect of the spinning.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Here too, the conditions of the future world are presented as the aftereffects of history.

  Academic text (2018)

• The shocks can leave a little bit of an aftereffect.

  Amnesiac (2015)

• Certainly, we in the US are living with the aftereffects of a terrorist attack.

  Academic text (2008)

• I was a young man faced with the prospect of living my life with the aftereffects of a serious illness.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Hildegard was telling me about her struggles with the aftereffects of a stroke.

  Academic text (1999)

• McCarthyism is only one example of such aftereffects that are still haunting the remains of American democracy.

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

E

effect

vsaftereffect

∞ 2.3

A result that happens because of something else

happens later as a delayed consequence

R

reverberation

vsaftereffect

3 6.8

An effect that continues after an earlier action and affects others

is a delayed consequence rather than an ongoing indirect result

Antonyms

C

to cause

∞ 1.0

To make something happen

How Severe

lasting effect

11 3.7

aftereffect

12 5.1

side effect

• Specialized

259 3.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology