outcome
pronunciation
How to pronounce outcome in British English:
UK [ˈaʊtkʌm]
How to pronounce outcome in American English:
US [ˈaʊtkʌm]
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- Noun:
- something that results
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
Word Origin
- outcome (n.)
- 1788, "that which results from something," originally Scottish, from out + come (v.). Popularized in English by Carlyle (c. 1830s). Used in Middle English in sense of "act or fact of coming out" (c. 1200). Old English had utancumen (n.) "stranger, foreigner."
Synonym
Example
- 1. Is this an inevitable outcome ?
- 2. That outcome must be avoided .
- 3. That outcome was not inevitable .
- 4. That is an astonishing outcome .
- 5. This is a telling outcome .