'Upshot' definitions:
Definition of 'upshot'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Upshot'
From: GCIDE
- Upshot \Up"shot`\, n. [Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf. the phrase to cast up an account.] Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation. [1913 Webster]
- I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'upshot'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishment,
- aftereffect,
- aftermath,
- answer,
- ascertainment,
- backwash,
- burden,
- by-product,
- clearing up,
- climax,
- completion,
- conclusion,
- consequence,
- consequent,
- core,
- corollary,
- cracking,
- culmination,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- denouement,
- derivation,
- derivative,
- determination,
- development,
- disentanglement,
- distillate,
- effect,
- end,
- end result,
- ending,
- event,
- eventuality,
- eventuation,
- explanation,
- fallout,
- feedback,
- finding,
- finding-out,
- finish,
- fruit,
- gist,
- harvest,
- interpretation,
- issue,
- legacy,
- logical outcome,
- meat,
- offshoot,
- offspring,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- pith,
- precipitate,
- product,
- purport,
- reason,
- repercussion,
- resolution,
- resolving,
- result,
- resultant,
- riddling,
- sense,
- sequel,
- sequela,
- sequence,
- sequent,
- short,
- solution,
- solving,
- sorting out,
- termination,
- thrust,
- unraveling,
- unriddling,
- unscrambling,
- unspinning,
- untangling,
- untwisting,
- unweaving,
- wake,
- working,
- working-out,
- wrap-up