end result
What ultimately happens
The final outcome after a process or series of events.
The phrase is technically redundant—a result is already an end—but common in everyday speech for emphasis: The end result was better than we expected.
What matters is the end result, not how you got there.
Result of an action
- effectResult of a cause
- upshotFinal outcome
- aftermathResults following an event
- productManufactured item for sale
fruit · yield · payoff · culmination · ramification · repercussion · aftereffect · fallout
Successful completion of aim
- successFavorable outcome attained
- triumphResounding, celebrated victory
- victoryDefeating an opponent
- attainmentSuccessful reaching of goal
realization · fulfillment · feat · breakthrough · masterpiece · pinnacle · crowning achievement · milestone
Official court decision
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- findingConclusion from investigation
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- decisionSettled course of action
judgment · assessment · evaluation · diagnosis · prognosis · final answer · closing · wrap-up
consequence
Result of an action
product · fruit · yield · payoff · culmination · ramification · repercussion · aftereffect · fallout · sequel
accomplishment
Successful completion of aim
attainment · realization · fulfillment · feat · breakthrough · masterpiece · pinnacle · crowning achievement · milestone · conquest
verdict
Official court decision
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- findingConclusion from investigation
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
decision · judgment · assessment · evaluation · diagnosis · prognosis · final answer · closing · wrap-up · finale
- Redundanciestautology, pleonasm, redundancy, redundant phrase, added bonus
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, results, effect, outcome
- inevitabilitiesdeath, mortality, taxes, fate, destiny
- outputproduct, output, production, final product, deliverable
- causationcause, effect, because, causality, causation
- endingsfinish, close, final, conclusion, conclude
end resultstarting point
Place of commencement
beginning · origin · outset · inception · commencement
end resultwork in progress
Incomplete ongoing effort
midpoint · draft · unfinished work · process · halfway point
end, result, ending, ended, ends, resulting, resultant, resulted, endmost