Definition of Inconsequent

1. Adjective. Lacking worth or importance. "The quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"

Exact synonyms: Inconsequential
Similar to: Unimportant
Derivative terms: Inconsequence

Definition of Inconsequent

1. a. Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.

Definition of Inconsequent

1. Adjective. (archaic) (alternative form of inconsequential) ¹

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Definition of Inconsequent

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsequent

inconnexedly
inconnu
inconnue
inconnues
inconnus
inconquerable
inconscient
inconscionable
inconscious
inconsecutive
inconsecutiveness
inconsequence
inconsequences
inconsequencies
inconsequency
inconsequent (current term)
inconsequentia
inconsequential
inconsequentiality
inconsequentially
inconsequentialness
inconsequently
inconsequentness
inconsiderable
inconsiderably
inconsideracy
inconsiderate
inconsiderately
inconsiderateness
inconsideration

Literary usage of Inconsequent

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Moreover, the incident of the angel and the clairvoyant and speaking ass is out of place and inconsequent. There was no occasion that Balaam should learn ..."

2. Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains by Grove Karl Gilbert, Clarence Edward Dutton (1880)
"CONSEQUENT AND inconsequent DRAINAGE. If a series of sediments accumulated in an ocean or lake be subjected to a system of displacements while still under ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1893)
"Although careful and accurate case-taking is of great value in the teaching of practical medicine, yet a desire for and a prying into inconsequent ..."

4. The Church Cyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Church Doctrine, History by Angelo Ames Benton (1883)
"... yet it would have been most apparently as aimless, as inconsequent, as those who deny tho Resurrection are forced to admit our life to be. ..."

5. The Province of Reason: A Criticism of the Bampton Lecture on "The Limits of by John Young (1860)
"Admit Facts, refuse Arguments—Nature of Consciousness — Equivocal Limitation—Infinite, Finite—Distinction, just and real—Confusion—inconsequent ..."

6. Pages from a Private Diary by Henry Charles Beeching (1899)
"inconsequent required no little imagination; and though Mrs. Bennet is not always equal to herself —as which of us is ?—she never quite sinks to caricature. ..."

7. Nature in Downland by William Henry Hudson (1906)
"... their inconsequent behaviour—Magpie and domestic pigeon—Story of a pet magpie—Blackberries on the downs—Elderberries— Fews at Kingly Bottom—A ..."

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