<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.</li><li>following as a logical conclusion or inference; logically consistent.</li><li>of significance or importance: His writings offer insight into his personality, opinions, and strengths, and show early evidence of the consequential man he would become.</li><li>having important effects or results: Being a lawyer, I knew that a consequential decision should not depend on an informal phone conversation.</li><li>Archaic: self-important; pompous.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>anything that follows upon something else, with or without a causal relationship.</li><li>Logic: the second member of a conditional proposition, as “Caesar was a great general” in “If Caesar conquered Gaul, he was a great general.”</li><li>Mathematics: the second term of a ratio; the second of two vectors in a dyad.</li></ul>