later

Adjective

• at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
  • the late phase of feudalism
    
  • a later symptom of the disease
    
  • later medical science could have saved the child
    

• coming at a subsequent time or stage
  • without ulterior argument
    
  • the mood posterior to
    

Adverb

• comparative of the adverb `late'
  • he stayed later than you did
    

• at some eventual time in the future
  • By and by he'll understand
    
  • I'll see you later
    

• happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
  • he apologized subsequently
    
  • he's going to the store but he'll be back here later
    
  • it didn't happen until afterward
    
  • two hours after that
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  late , later(a) , ulterior , posterior , by and by , subsequently , afterwards , afterward , after , later on