Inconsequent

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of inconsequential. alt-of, alternative, archaic

    "—Don’t mope over it all day, he said. I’m inconsequent."

  2. 2
    illogical; not following from the premises

    "She looked at him a minute, and it came to him as he met it an inconsequent sense that her eyes, when one got their full clearness, were still as beautiful as they had been in youth, only beautiful with a strange, cold light - a light that somehow was a part of the effect, if it wasn't rather a part of the cause, of the pale, hard sweetness of the season and the hour."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking worth or importance wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
inconsequentialabnormalabsonantabsurdadriftanomalous

Example

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"—Don’t mope over it all day, he said. I’m inconsequent."

Etymology

From Middle French inconséquent.

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