Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking importance.
- adj. Not following from premises or evidence; illogical.
- n. A triviality.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not consequential; not following from the premises; without cause or without consequences; illogical; irrational: as, inconsequential reasons or actions.
- Of no consequence or value.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having no consequence, not consequential, of little importance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not following logically as a consequence
- adj. lacking worth or importance
Etymologies
- in- + consequential. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's not like this absorption in the inconsequential is anything new.”
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“And the interesting thing about the book, apart from its ability to enthrall, is that it hasn't really dated, or has dated only in inconsequential or charming ways.”
“It’s one thing to say you don’t like the changes, but to pretend they’re inconsequential is just … beyond silly.”
“If sense prevails, both of these formats will remain inconsequential. —”
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“I figure this pack of yapping hyenas will just keep prattling about the insignificant and the inconsequential, which is fine.”
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“The others having been labelled inconsequential by the monolithic mass media.”
“My brain keeps going to the work inconsequential, which is not the word, has nothing to do with the other word.”
“Everyone and everything in the film, apart from Streep, is inconsequential, which is a shame.”
“Those 30 bird strike incidents last year can be termed inconsequential, but that doesn't mean the Airport Authority doesn't take them seriously.”
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“CNN devoted much more air time, immensely more personnel, and countless production resources describing how "inconsequential" this rally was, and giving airtime to administration mouthpieces who criticized the veracity of the message being demonstrated by the rally.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inconsequential’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Kangaroo Words 2
Kangaroo words with joey-antonyms, e.g., pest/pet
pest, friend, giant, cremate, covert, there, feast, wonderful, animosity, inattentive, electrocuted, rectitude and 54 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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cxfx's list
callipygous, scaphism, ubermorgen, handschuhschneeba..., farctate, autohagiography, autolatry, spindrift, feculent, verisimilitude, brobdingnagian, ineluctable and 205 more...
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samuraizack's Words
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., bombastic, existentialistic, velocipede, aglet, anatomical snuffbox, wonk, tang, funambulist, quakebuttock, flews and 390 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL I
iconoclast, idiosyncrasy, ignoble, ignominious, illicit, illusory, illustrious, imbibe, imbue, immaculate, immaterial, immolate and 155 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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GRE list 1
Bloviate, Bacchanalia, mirth, covet, inconsequential, prescient, heresy, revelry, modality, gentrify, vitiate, tantalize and 182 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for inconsequential.
oroboros inCOnseqUeNTial. If something counts it's hardly inconsequential. Aug 22, 2008