Base and Resultant

Base

Base noun - An immaterial thing upon which something else rests.

Resultant is an antonym for base.

Nearby Words: basic, basal, based, baseline, baseball

Resultant

Resultant noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Usage example: a person's decision to purchase a certain automobile is often the resultant of an array of factors, ranging from the actual performance of the vehicle to the buyer's self-image

Base is an antonym for resultant.

Nearby Words: result, resulting

Both words in one sentence

  • When irreplaceable guitarist Michael Schenker left UFO in the 1970s, a sizable portion of the fan base considered them to have ceased existing, despite a resultant run of albums that were more consistent than the ones during Schenker's difficult tenure.
  • It turned out that in life, the dead man had used a vacuum pump to artificially draw blood into his penis and to conserve the resultant erection; he had slipped an elastic band around the base of the shaft to prevent it subsiding.
  • Weapon of Mass Destruction With the Disney reboot, most of these have disappeared in the new canon, only for them to come up with new ones like Starkiller Base, which drained stars to fling the resultant energies across interstellar distances and wipe out planets.
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