Meaning of INCONSEQUENT
| Pronunciation: | | in'kânsu`kwent
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| | Definition: | | [adj] lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet" |
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| | Synonyms: | | inconsequential, unimportant |
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| | Definition: | | \In*con"se*quent\, a. [L. inconsequens: cf. F.
incons['e]quent. See {In-} not, and {Consequent}.]
Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred;
invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical;
arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.
Loose and inconsequent conjectures. --Sir T.
Browne.
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| | Related Terms: | | abnormal, absonant, absurd, adrift, anomalous, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, contradictory, contrary to reason, disproportionate, extraneous, extrinsic, fallacious, faulty, flawed, illogical, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inauthentic, incidental, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsistent, inconsonant, invalid, irrational, irreconcilable, irrelative, irrelevant, loose, measly, niggling, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonscientific, not at issue, not following, off the subject, out of proportion, out-of-the-way, oxymoronic, paltry, paradoxical, paralogical, parenthetical, peanut, pettifogging, picayune, picayunish, reasonless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, small, trifling, trivial, unauthentic, unconnected, unessential, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unscientific, without reason |
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