Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inconsequent

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-con-se-quent
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of inconsequential.

Archaic

adj

illogical; not following from the premises

Example Sentences

"—Don’t mope over it all day, he said. I’m inconsequent."
"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."
"That possibility was now ever so much further from sight than on the eve of his arrival, and he perfectly felt that, should it come at all, it would have to be at best inconsequent and violent."

Etymology

From Middle French inconséquent.

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more inconsequent (comparative) most inconsequent (superlative)

Derived Forms

inconsequently inconsequentness

Synonyms

inconsequential

Questions

What does inconsequent mean?: Alternative form of inconsequential.
Where does inconsequent come from?: From Middle French inconséquent.

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