inconsequent

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adjective

illogical; not following from the premises

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectiveinconsequent (comparative more inconsequent, superlative most inconsequent)

comparative more inconsequent · superlative most inconsequent

  1. alternativearchaicAlternative form of inconsequential.

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

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
  2. illogical; not following from the premises

    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.

    1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC
    1 more example

    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.

    1903, Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivelacking worth or importance

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchinconséquent
  2. Englishinconsequent

From Middle French inconséquent.

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APA

inconsequent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inconsequent

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inconsequent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inconsequent.

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