Nonsequitous

Quick meaning: Nonsequitous is an adjective meaning (rare) Having the form of a non sequitur; not logically following from preceding statements or events.

Meaning

(rare) Having the form of a non sequitur; not logically following from preceding statements or events.

Example Sentences

53 The decision considered here does not, in its analysis, provide a detailed argument but rather sets out a number of seemingly nonsequitous 'considerations'.

Given their stated hurry in 4, Franklin's question seems oddly nonsequitous. Like his story in Sc. 9, we might see the stand-alone, bawdy comic routine to which this gives rise as moving the travellers some way along the route.

Some was good, some was bad and some was so nonsensically nonsequitous that it confuses me even now to think about it. And yet, during all that time, I never learned his age, where he came from or where he went when he vanished.

Word Forms

• non sequitous
• non-sequitous

Synonyms for nonsequitous

Depending on context, synonyms include nonsequiturial.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonsequacious, unsequacious, unsequential, nonsequential, nonconsequent, nonsuccessive.

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