nonsequitous

comparative more nonsequitous · superlative most nonsequitous · alternative non sequitous · alternative non-sequitous

1. rareHaving the form of a non sequitur; not logically following from preceding statements or events.

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

   2016 February 24, George Ulrich, The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer, Routledge, →ISBN

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   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.

   2013 June 6, Jasper Fforde, The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Hachette UK, →ISBN

   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.

   2022 January 27, Catherine Richardson, Arden of Faversham, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

   Synonyms: nonsequiturial