hereafter

1. 1

   From now on.not-comparable

   • I WON'T give you any excuse hereafter for accusing me of neglecting to write. It is you that must take care that with all your leisure you keep up with me.
2. 2

   Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)not-comparable

3. 3

   In time to come; in some future time or state.datednot-comparable

   • She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.
   • […] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]

syn. henceforward · then

1. 1

   A future existence or state.countableuncommonuncountable

2. 2

   Existence after death.countablepoeticuncommon

   • 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.

1. 1

   Future.archaicnot-comparable