Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not succeeding in regular order; disconnected.

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  • adjective Not consecutive

Etymologies

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in- +‎ consecutive

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Examples

  • We were inconsecutive, illogical, and inconsequential.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • There are 44 presidents but only 43 in there because Grover Cleveland actually ran two inconsecutive terms.

    CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2009 2009

  • Looking back at the second solicitation for votes, Brain sez "at least 6 issues of an ongoing title" and that "Series of mini-series count as ongoing", but my choice probably would have been disqualified since the two stories were inconsecutive.

    Top 100 Comic Book Runs #100-91 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • At times came robbers and thieves, at times came diseases among the beasts and shortness of food, once the country was worried by a pack of boar-hounds he helped to kill; he went through many inconsecutive, irrelevant adventures.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • And all the while, behind her quick breathless inconsecutive talk she was thinking.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • It must be a dream; it was so inconsecutive, so reasonless.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • One might fill a dozen inconsecutive volumes with the strange things they exhibited.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • Odd little gusts of inconsecutive conversations reached her ... down in Norfolk where my brother-in-law has a boat ...

    The Years 2004

  • It stood in his memory not as a sequence of events but as a collection of disconnected static sayings; each saying blunt, permanent, inconsecutive like a graven inscription.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • What Amory did that year from early September to late in the spring was so purposeless and inconsecutive that it seems scarcely worth recording.

    This Side of Paradise 2003

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