Meanings
comparative more inconsequent · superlative most inconsequent
- 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 - 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. […], →OCLC1 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
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Origin
- Middle Frenchinconséquent
- Englishinconsequent
From Middle French inconséquent.
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