inconsequential

comparative more inconsequential · superlative most inconsequential

1. Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.

   You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential.

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   “[…]Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone—” He broke off uneasily.

   1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “A Matter of Civilization”, in The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 3, page 341

   Synonyms: unimportant, negligible, trivial, trifling, base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish

2. Not logically following from the premises.

plural inconsequentials

1. Something unimportant; something that does not matter.