happening at the end of a period of time or of a process 最后的;最终的;结果的 the eventual winner of the tournament 锦标赛的最终胜利者 It is impossible to predict what the eventual outcome will be. 无法预测最终结果会怎么样。 The village school may face eventual closure. 这所乡村学校可能面临最后被关闭。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEventual is used with these nouns:- aim
- closure
- demise
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More Like This Adjectives that only come before a nounAdjectives that only come before a nounWord Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to an event or events’): from Latin eventus (from evenire ‘result, happen’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + venire ‘come’), on the pattern of actual.