conclusion

Plural: conclusions

Noun

• a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
  • "his conclusion took the evidence into account"
• an intuitive assumption
  • "jump to a conclusion"
• the temporal end; the concluding time
• event whose occurrence ends something
• the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
• the act of ending something
• a final settlement
  • "the conclusion of a business deal"
  • "the conclusion of the peace treaty"
• the last section of a communication
  • "in conclusion I want to say..."
• the act of making up your mind about something
  • "he drew his conclusions quickly"
• The end, finish, close or last part of something.
• The outcome or result of a process or act.
• A decision reached after careful thought.
• In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
• An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
• The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
• An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
• arrangement; settlement.

Examples

• The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.

Synonyms

close, closing, decision, determination, end, ending, finale, finis, finish, last, ratiocination, stopping point, termination, afterword, endpoint, epilogue, postamble, terminus

Antonyms

beginning, initiation, start

Related Words

conclude, conclusive, conclusively, conclusiveness