EVENTUAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eventual mean? 

• EVENTUAL (adjective)
  The adjective EVENTUAL has 1 sense:

1. expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating

  Familiarity information: EVENTUAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENTUAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating

Context example:

if this trend continues it is not reasonable to expect the eventual collapse of the stock market

Similar:

ultimate (furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme)

 Context examples 

The clinical course follows a progression to growth retardation, spastic paraplegia and optic atrophy with eventual vision loss.

(Laurence-Moon Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Last night Challenger said that he never cared to walk on the Thames Embankment and look up the river, as it was always sad to see one's own eventual goal.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A group of inherited progressive muscle disorders characterized by muscle weakness and eventual death of the muscle tissues.

(Muscular Dystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Glutamine can donate the ammonia on its side chain to the formation of urea (for eventual excretion by the kidneys) and to purines (necessary for the synthesis of nucleic acids).

(Glutamine, NCI Thesaurus)

He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This prevents the accumulation of cystine crystals in the lysosomes of patients with cystinosis, which can cause considerable damage and eventual destruction of the cells, particularly in the kidneys.

(Cysteamine Bitartrate, NCI Thesaurus)

This results in a decrease in visual acuity and eventual blindness if untreated.

(Cataract, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

But chronic damage in conditions such as alcohol abuse, fatty liver disease and certain viral infections, leads to impaired regeneration and cirrhosis (scarring), with eventual loss of liver function.

(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)

A special-purpose degree that allows someone who has some prior studies but not achieved a bachelor's degree to resume their education and pursue the study of law towards an eventual Juris Doctor degree.

(Bachelor of Science in Law, NCI Thesaurus)

As the active metabolite of ganciclovir, ganciclovir-5-triphosphate (ganciclovir-TP) appears to inhibit viral DNA synthesis by competitive inhibition of viral DNA polymerases and incorporation into viral DNA, resulting in eventual termination of viral DNA elongation.

(Ganciclovir, NCI Thesaurus)