UPSHOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upshot mean? 

• UPSHOT (noun)
  The noun UPSHOT has 1 sense:

1. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

  Familiarity information: UPSHOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPSHOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot

Context example:

he acted very wise after the event

Hypernyms ("upshot" is a kind of...):

phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upshot"):

harvest (the consequence of an effort or activity)

spillover ((economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure)

fallout; side effect (any adverse and unwanted secondary effect)

response (a result)

repercussion; reverberation (a remote or indirect consequence of some action)

position effect ((genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome)

placebo effect (any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs)

product (a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances)

branch; offset; offshoot; outgrowth (a natural consequence of development)

knock-on effect (a secondary or incidental effect)

influence (the effect of one thing (or person) on another)

impact; wallop (a forceful consequence; a strong effect)

materialisation; materialization; offspring (something that comes into existence as a result)

domino effect (the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall))

dent (an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening))

Coriolis effect ((physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere)

coattails effect ((politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party)

change (the result of alteration or modification)

by-product; byproduct (a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence)

butterfly effect (the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago)

brisance (the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion)

bandwagon effect (the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity)

aftermath; backwash; wake (the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event))

aftereffect (any result that follows its cause after an interval)

 Context examples 

The upshot of the affair was that she accompanied me next morning.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the upshot of it all—of my thinking and reading and loving—is that I am going to move to Grub Street.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This one swung himself off the box-seat with the alacrity of a man who has no doubts about the upshot of the quarrel, and after hanging his caped coat upon the swingle-bar, he daintily turned up the ruffled cuffs of his white cambric shirt.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was mighty learned about the case, to me; but the upshot of his opinion was, that the carrier was making his last journey rather fast.—Put your hand into the breast pocket of my great-coat on the chair yonder, and I think you'll find the letter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)