nonsequitous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the form of a non sequitur; not logically following from preceding statements or events.
Example Sentences
- "Some was good, some was bad and some was so nonsensically nonsequitous that it confuses me even now to think about it. And yet, during all that time, I never learned his age, where he came from or where he went when he vanished."
- "53 The decision considered here does not, in its analysis, provide a detailed argument but rather sets out a number of seemingly nonsequitous 'considerations'."
- "Given their stated hurry in 4, Franklin's question seems oddly nonsequitous. Like his story in Sc. 9, we might see the stand-alone, bawdy comic routine to which this gives rise as moving the travellers some way along the route."
Etymology
From non sequitur + -ous.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more nonsequitous (comparative)
most nonsequitous (superlative)
non sequitous (alternative)
non-sequitous (alternative)