Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no importance or significance.
- adjective Inconsistent or illogical.
- adjective Proceeding without a natural or logical sequence; haphazard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not consequent; not resulting from what has preceded; out of proper relation; irrelevant: as, inconsequent remarks; his actions are very inconsequent.
- Not following from the premises; of the nature of an inference the conclusion of which might be false though the premises were true; illogical; formally fallacious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Alternative form of
inconsequential .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking worth or importance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I skipped back with much agility, also a little to one side, because there was nothing else to do, reflecting in a kind of inconsequent way, that after all Zikali's Great Medicine was not worth a curse.
She and Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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The only bad effect of all this was to make the lives of Mrs. Schoville and divers others of her sex more monotonous, and to cause them to lose faith in certain hoary and inconsequent maxims.
CHAPTER 21 2010
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(I will note, of course, that it is not a Catholic parish, but that is inconsequent to our consideration of the architecture.)
More Italianate Architecture: St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Wilton, England 2009
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The muddled and inconsequent surface of things now and then parts to yield us a gift.
john updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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The muddled and inconsequent surface of things now and then parts to yield us a gift.
January « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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As the Holy Father has stated and witnesses to us, the external forms of the liturgy are not inconsequent or mere pharisaism rather they are of great importance for the experiential in teaching and passing on the Faith.
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"Lit-lit," so called from her fashion, even as a child, of being fluttery, of darting about from place to place like a butterfly, of being inconsequent and merry, and of laughing as lightly as she darted and danced about.
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To the innocent, who had never seen it before, it seemed discorded and inconsequent, bizarre and paradoxical like the frantic darting of the weightless bugs which run on the surface of stagnant pools.
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"The value of a person's stock market portfolio is not inconsequent; there's a perceived feeling of wealth," says Mr. Pringuet.
Spirits Brighten at Debt-Heavy Pernod Ricard Christina Passariello 2010
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This administration has deemed that security and terrorism are almost inconsequent concerns of American taxpayers, since it has attached such an inconsequential individual to manage the department.
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