Definition of Inconsequentially

1. Adverb. Lacking consequence. "`You're so beautifully dressed,' she said and added quite inconsequentially, `Can you stay the night?'"

Exact synonyms: Inconsequently
Antonyms: Consequentially
Partainyms: Inconsequent

Definition of Inconsequentially

1. Adverb. The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsequentially

inconnus
inconquerable
inconscient
inconscionable
inconscious
inconsecutive
inconsecutiveness
inconsequence
inconsequences
inconsequencies
inconsequency
inconsequent
inconsequentia
inconsequential
inconsequentiality
inconsequentially
inconsequentialness
inconsequently
inconsequentness
inconsiderable
inconsiderably
inconsideracy
inconsiderate
inconsiderately
inconsiderateness
inconsideration
inconsistence
inconsistences
inconsistencies
inconsistency

Literary usage of Inconsequentially

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1837)
"The Pagans (says Bayle), from the obscurity wherein they lived as to another life, reasoned very inconsequentially on the reality of virtue. ..."

2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"... few hours ago haunted her and mingled inconsequentially with happier ones of his days of promise. Never had she failed in tenderness or gentleness with ..."

3. The Road by Jack London (1907)
"It was called a flag-station, and it .consisted of a shanty dumped inconsequentially into the sand and sage-brush. A chill wind was blowing, ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Like after-dinner chats in men's dubs, the book opens a little inconsequentially, but after a while, the short pictures of Chinese life gather momentum and ..."

5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... blowing his nose inconsequentially, and muttering to himself. Could catch now and then the phrase "anonymous tittle-tattle." УК THE "DIVISIÓN" BELL. ..."

6. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1833)
"... to consider as firm and unquestionable, and led them to argue, not inconsequentially, from the success which had attended the political experiment, ..."

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