HEREAFTER Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

hereafter 1 of 2

adverb

hir-ˈaf-tər

Definition of hereafter next

as in afterwards

from this point on he is giving up all his worldly goods and hereafter will devote his life to the poor

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hereafter

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noun

as in future

time that is to come apologized, for being late to the meeting and assured his boss that there would be no such recurrences in the hereafter

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as in immortality

unending existence after death hoped to be reunited with his deceased wife in the hereafter

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Adverb

Introduction Since 2003, the Tax Foundation, a think tank based in Washington D.C., has annually issued its Business Tax Climate Index (hereafter the Index), comparing all 50 states and analyzing each state’s business tax climate. —

Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023 That’s why the 2018 announcement of the properties of NGC 1052-DF2, hereafter known as DF2 for short, came as such a shock. —

Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 22 June 2021

Noun

The otherworlds that Véra claimed were central to his metaphysics don’t necessarily exist in a temporal hereafter, but rather in a spatial here and now. —

Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022 Others of us prefer her messing with the hereafter alongside Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland. —

Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for hereafter

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