Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking importance.
- adjective Not following from premises or evidence; illogical.
- noun A triviality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not consequential; not following from the premises; without cause or without consequences; illogical; irrational: as, inconsequential reasons or actions.
- Of no consequence or value.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
consequence , notconsequential , of littleimportance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not following logically as a consequence
- adjective lacking worth or importance
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's not like this absorption in the inconsequential is anything new.
Dr. Jim Taylor: I Don't Care About LeBron James or Lindsay Lohan or... Dr. Jim Taylor 2010
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It's not like this absorption in the inconsequential is anything new.
Dr. Jim Taylor: I Don't Care About LeBron James or Lindsay Lohan or... Dr. Jim Taylor 2010
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It's not like this absorption in the inconsequential is anything new.
Dr. Jim Taylor: I Don't Care About LeBron James or Lindsay Lohan or... Dr. Jim Taylor 2010
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And the interesting thing about the book, apart from its ability to enthrall, is that it hasn't really dated, or has dated only in inconsequential or charming ways.
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle – review Nicholas Lezard 2010
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It’s one thing to say you don’t like the changes, but to pretend they’re inconsequential is just … beyond silly.
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If sense prevails, both of these formats will remain inconsequential. —
Did Warner Brothers Just Kill HD DVD? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I figure this pack of yapping hyenas will just keep prattling about the insignificant and the inconsequential, which is fine.
Blagojevich and Obama: Takes From the Right - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The others having been labelled inconsequential by the monolithic mass media.
happy holidays 2007
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My brain keeps going to the work inconsequential, which is not the word, has nothing to do with the other word.
September 23rd, 2002 2002
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Everyone and everything in the film, apart from Streep, is inconsequential, which is a shame.
FOXNews.com Justin Craig 2012
oroboros commented on the word inconsequential
inCOnseqUeNTial. If something counts it's hardly inconsequential.
August 23, 2008