consequentially

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adverb

In a consequential manner; with consequence or significance.

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Meanings

adverbconsequentially (comparative more consequentially, superlative most consequentially)

comparative more consequentially · superlative most consequentially

  1. In a consequential manner; with consequence or significance.

    ‘I know whom you mean,’ returned the host, consequentially—in reality knowing as much about the matter as Flamwell himself.—‘He has a capital business.’

    1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC
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    He knows that a war, at once unjust and unsuccessful, would have certainly displaced them, and is, therefore, in his zeal for his country, angry that war was not unjustly made, and unsuccessfully conducted. But there are others whose thoughts are less clearly expressed, and whose schemes, perhaps, are less consequentially digested; who declare that they do not wish for a rupture, yet condemn the ministry for not doing that, by which a rupture would naturally have been made.

    1771, Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on Falkland's Islands

    It may justly be doubted, whether even such an infringement (though a manifest breach of good faith, unless done upon the most pressing necessity) would consequentially dissolve the union: for the bare idea of a state, without a power somewhere vested to alter every part of it’s laws, is the height of political absurdity.

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbhaving the result that

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“consequentially.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/consequentially. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “consequentially,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/consequentially.

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