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Webster 1913 Edition
Inconsequent
In-con′se-quent
,Adj.
Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.
Loose and
inconsequent
conjectures. Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inconsequent
INCON'SEQUENT
,Adj.
Definition 2024
inconsequent
inconsequent
See also: inconséquent
English
Adjective
inconsequent (comparative more inconsequent, superlative most inconsequent)
- (archaic) Alternative form of inconsequential
- illogical; not apparently following from; intuitive
- 1903, Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle
- 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.