Inconsequent

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(archaic) Alternative form of inconsequential..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) Alternative form of inconsequential.
2. illogical; not following from the premises

Example Sentences

—Don’t mope over it all day, he said. I’m inconsequent.

She looked at him a minute, and it came to him as he met it an inconsequent sense that her eyes, when one got their full clearness, were still as beautiful as they had been in youth, only beautiful with a strange, cold light - a light that somehow was a part of the effect, if it wasn't rather a part of the cause, of the pale, hard sweetness of the season and the hour.

That possibility was now ever so much further from sight than on the eve of his arrival, and he perfectly felt that, should it come at all, it would have to be at best inconsequent and violent.

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• more inconsequent
• most inconsequent

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