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INCONSEQUENTIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inconsequential mean?
• INCONSEQUENTIAL (adjective)
The adjective INCONSEQUENTIAL has 2 senses:
1. lacking worth or importance
2. not following logically as a consequence
Familiarity information: INCONSEQUENTIAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking worth or importance
Synonyms:
inconsequent; inconsequential
Context example:
the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet
Similar:
unimportant (not important)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not following logically as a consequence
Similar:
Context examples
I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he had listened with the greatest concentration of attention.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I felt so injured by the inconsequential nature of this charge, that it gave me courage to be grave.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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