Inconsequent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Inconsequent is an adjective meaning illogical; not following from the premises.
Meaning
illogical; not following from the premises.
More Meanings
- (archaic) Alternative form of inconsequential.
Example Sentences
—Don’t mope over it all day, he said. I’m inconsequent.
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.
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.
Synonyms for inconsequent
Depending on context, synonyms include inconsequential, unimportant.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inconsequential, unimportant, illogical, nonlogical, unlogical, illogic.
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