in the end
When all's done
In the end means ultimately or after everything else has happened.
It signals a final outcome or conclusion after a process, deliberation, or series of events: In the end, we decided to stay home.
The phrase often implies that earlier efforts, complications, or alternatives gave way to a definitive result: Nothing else worked, but in the end it didn't matter.
- finallyAt the end
- at lastAfter prolonged waiting
- eventuallyAt a later time
- ultimatelyIn the end
- when all is said and doneAfter all factors considered
after all · at length · long story short · hindsight · closure · resolution · denouement · culmination · when push comes to shove · result · final outcome · destiny · retrospective · realization · payoff · consequence · conclusion · inevitability
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
- Conclusion phrasesin conclusion, to conclude, finally, in closing, to sum up
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, result, results, effect
- sequence wordsfirst, second, third, next, fourth
- summariessummary, synopsis, summaries, abstract, abstracts
in the endin the beginning
At the start
at first · initially · at the beginning · originally · from the start
in the endprovisionally
Conditionally, pending confirmation
preliminarily · tentatively · temporarily · for now · for the time being
end, the, ending, ended, endless, ends, endlessly, endemic, endgame