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Consequential

Definition: Consequential

Consequential

Adjective

1. Having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "consequential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Consequential

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
conlossEnglishConsequential lossInsurance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Consequential

Synonym: eventful (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Consequential

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Demonstration

Deducible, consequential, consectary, inferential, following.

Pride

Supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant; unblushing.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Consequential

English words defined with "consequential": Consequentialnesseventful, EventtualIndirect claims. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Consequential

DomainTitle

Books

  • Consequential Damages in Comparative Context from Breach of Promise to Monetary Remedy in the American, Scandinavian and International Law of Contrac (reference)

  • Consequential Light: Poems by Judy Vernon (reference)

  • Consequential loss insurance (reference)

  • In the First Place: Twenty Years of the Most Consequential Ideas from Hillsdale College's Monthly Journal Imprimis (reference)

  • Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance: What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Consequential

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Korea

Recently, due to the economic crisis and the consequential wage cuts and layoffs, labor disputes are once again on the increase. (references)

Kyrgyzstan

However, despite the backing of major Western donors, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kyrgyzstan had consequential economic difficulties from the outset. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Consequential

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Tom Daschle

Well, we've not been exposed to this before, as you know. This is the first and extraordinarily consequential experience and exposure that is unprecedented. In all of American history, this has not happened.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Consequential

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George W. Bush

2001-2005Rarely has the world faced a choice more clear or consequential.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Consequential

"Consequential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.53% of the time. "Consequential" is used about 204 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)98.53%20121,536
Noun (proper)1.47%3202,518
                    Total100.00%204N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Consequential

Expressions using "consequential": consequential damage consequential loss consequential loss insurance Marine consequential loss. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "consequential": non-consequential.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Consequential

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

consequential

68

consequential damages

10

consequential idea

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Consequential

Language Translations for "consequential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që rrjedh logjikisht, kryelartë (arrogant, cavalier, cocksy, cocky, conceited, haughty, high, lofty, lordly, proud, proud-stomached, stuck up, supercilious, toplofty), i rëndësishëm (capital, earnest, epoch making, eventful, front page, grave, important, imported, impressive, inflated, jack in office, mattery, mouth-filling, notable, noteworthy, responsible, serious, sidy, significant, substantial, tidy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مترابط منطقيا (coherent, consecutive). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

който следва логически, важен (dignified, fatal, grave, importable, important, magisterial, major, material, mighty, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line, weighty), надут (bombastic, conceited, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

必然. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyplývající. (various references)

   

Danish

  

skadeserstatning (accident insurance claim, consequential damage, damages, indemnity), infrastrukturomkostninger (capital and running costs of ancillary facilities, capital expenditure, consequential follow-up costs, infrastructure work), indirekte skade (consequential damage, ensuing damage), driftstab (conloss, consequential loss). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uitrustingskosten (capital and running costs of ancillary facilities, capital expenditure, consequential follow-up costs), schadevergoeding (consequential damage, damages, indemnity, recompense for damage, redress for damages to tangible property), schaden en interessen (consequential damage, damages, indemnity), schadeloosstelling (compensation, consequential damage, damages, indemnity), plankosten (capital and running costs of ancillary facilities, capital expenditure, consequential follow-up costs), indirecte schade (consequential damage, ensuing damage), gevolgschade (conloss, consequential damage, consequential loss, ensuing damage), bedrijfsschadeverzekering (consequential loss insurance, loss of profits insurance, work and business loss insurance), bedrijfsschade (consequential loss). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vahingonkorvaus (compensation, damages, indemnification), välillinen vahinko (conloss, consequential loss), seurannaisvahinko (conloss, consequential loss), infrastruktuurikustannukset (capital and running costs of ancillary facilities, capital expenditure, consequential follow-up costs), epäsuora vahinko (conloss, consequential loss). (various references)

   

French

  

consécutif (consecutive, consequent), important (considerable, considerably). (various references)

   

German

  

logisch (consistent, logical, logically, natural). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σοβαροφανήσ, ξιπασμένοσ (above oneself, cocky, conceited, pretentious, stuck up, uppish, vain), πομπώδησ (bombastic, flatus, grandiloquence, grandiose, highfaluting, magniloquent, pompous, splurge, stilted, turgid), επακόλουθοσ (resultant, sequential), οφειλώμενοσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחשיב את עצמו, עקיב (consistent, pertinacious). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vmit (evidential of sg, grasping, have a fling at sg, have a strong dislike of sg, have the wind up, having regard to sg, relative to, to accommodate sy with sg, to account for sg, to adjure sy to sg, to allow sy to do sg, to ask sy sg, to attend to sg, to be eager to do sg, to be fain to do sg, to be quick about sg, to be quick over sg, to bring sg into relief, to chug sg, to debar sy from sg, to do sg with the idea of, to feel sg in one's bones, to get a nearer view of sg, to get the wind up, to give evidence of sg, to give rise to sg, to give sg a sluice down, to give sg the once-over, to gloat on sg, to gloat upon sg, to go halves with sy in sg, to hack sg away, to hold out sg at arms length, to hold sg cheap, to huddle over a piece of work, to huddle through a piece of work, to know sg intimately, to lay sg to sy's charge, to let sy do sg, to lie in one's power to do sg, to make no bones about sg, to palm sg off on sy, to pay for, to play the devil with sg, to play the very devil with sg, to put sg across, to put the words into sy's mouth, to reckon sg as, to reckon with sg, to rejoice at sg, to rejoice over sg, to relieve sy of sg, to resort to sg, to scrape the bottom of the barrel, to set great store by sg, to set great store on sg, to set little store by sg, to set no great store by sg, to set no store by sg, to set store by sg, to set store on sg, to shuffle off, to squall, to squirm, to take a fling at sg, to take a smell at sg, to take a vow to do sg, to take heed to do sg, to take it into one's head to do sg, to take notice of sg, to take sg into account, to take the chill off sg, to think up sg, to throw sg into relief, to try the weight of sg, to will sy to do sg, to wish to do sg, to wrap sg up), vmiből szükségszerűen következő, vmiből (to make too much of sg, to take a dram of sg, to take sg out of sg), valamit követõ, valamibõl következõ, szükséges (it is necessary, necessary, needful, requisite, to need, to require), nagyképű (bumptious, gobbledygook, large, pedantic, pompous, self-conceited, self-conscious, sententious, show-off, stuck-up), következő (ensuing, following, next, second, subsequent, succeeding, ulterior), követő (adherent, ensuing, follower), járó (ambulatory, goer, horsy, owing, walkway), fontoskodó (bumptious, bustling, busybody, fussy, officious, owlish, pedant, pompous, pragmatic, pragmatical, prissy, self-important, to put on a consequential air), fontos következményekkel, fennhéjázó (bumptious, cavalier, domineering, haughty, high-blown, lofty, overweening), elbizakodott (cock-sure, overweening, perky, pretentious, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important, stuck-up, uppity), öntelt (arrogant, cocky, complacent, conceited, coxy, high and mighty, lofty, presuming, priggish, proud, self confident, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, stuck-up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

consequenziale, presuntuoso (arrogant, assuming, assumptive, big-headed, bumptious, conceited, confident, jackanapes, opinionated, overweening, presumptuous, puppyish, self-righteous, uppish, uppity). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(indirect). (various references)

   

Manx

  

eiyrtyssagh (adherent, consecutive, consequent, follower, subsequent, successive, successor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onsequentialcay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

conseqüente (consequent, consistent, sequacious, sequent, sequential), conseqüêncial, consecutivo (sequent, successive), pretencioso, pomposo (budge, formal, gallant, garish, grandiose, lofty, measured, orotund, ostentatious, pompous, puffed-up, showy, solemn, sounding, stately, stiff, tumid). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

care rezultã, care este urmarea logicã, plin de sine (bumptious, fatuous, pompous, portentous, puffy, self-conceited, self-important), important (big, considerable, goodly, grave, great, high, high-class, important, interesting, momentous, outstanding, prime, relevant, serious, significant, significative, substantial, weighty). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

важный (donnish, earnest, first rate, grave, humungous, important, momentous, of consequence, of great moment, of importance, of significance, portentous, prancing, serious, significant, substantial, weighty), важничающий (Jack in office, self-important, sidy), логический (logical, ratiocinative), последующий (after, consequentual, subsequent, succedent, successive). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

značajan (grand, important, major, meaningful, momentous, notable, pertinent, significant, significative, weighty), važan (imperative, important, material, momentous, pertinent, serious, weighty), dosledan (consecutive, consequent, consistent). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

consiguiente (according, according to, consequent, ensuing, eventual, resultant), resultante (resultant), importante (big, considerable, deferent, essential, great, important, important thing, large, leading, respectable, serious, significant, sizable, sizeable, top, valuable, weighty), de consecuencia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

följdriktig (coherent, congruous, consequent, consistent, logical, sequential). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sonucu olan (consequent, Sequent), mantıki, kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), izleyen (after, consequent, following, onlooking, the following, tracer), bağlı olan (associate), önemli (big, big time, capital, considerable, emphatic, emphatical, eventful, fateful, grand, grave, great, gut, healthy, heavy, high, historic, historical, important, leading, major, momentous, noteworthy, of importance, of note, of weight, prominent, respectable, serious, significant, smart, solemn, star, substantial, top-line, urgent, weighty, worthy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

що логічно виплива", важливий (big, considerable, earnest, grand, grave, important, influential, interesting, momentous, newsworthy, purposeful, serious, weighty), поважний (antique, considered, dignified, esteemed, important, patriarchal). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tự mãn (bumptious, cocksy, cocky, coxy, donnish, self-content, self-contentment, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, self-sufficing), tự đắc (perky, proud-hearted, proud-spirited, pround-stomached, vainly), do kết quả; l kết quả lôgíc của tự phụ, do hậu quả. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Consequential

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consequentia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Consequential

Derivations

Words beginning with "consequential": consequentialities, consequentiality, consequentially, consequentialness, consequentialnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "consequential": inconsequential. (additional references)

Words containing "consequential": inconsequentialities, inconsequentiality, inconsequentially. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Consequential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conseguential, consequentia, consequentialism, consequentiall, consequentials, nonsequential. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Consequential"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "consequential" (pronounced kÄ'nsukwe"nkhul)
12k Ä' n s u k w e" n kh u linconsequential.
9-s u k w e" n kh u lsequential.
5-e" n kh u lcredential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, tangential, influential, nonessential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, reverential, torrential.
4-n kh u lcircumstantial, substantial, insubstantial.
3-kh u lbestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Consequential

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-q-s-t-u"

-1 letter: enucleations.

-2 letters: enucleation, nucleations.

-3 letters: clinquants, consequent, enunciates, ineloquent, inoculants, inoculates, inosculate, liquescent, nonelastic, nucleation, sequential, uncleanest.

-4 letters: clinquant, coastline, coequates, conquians, consulate, continual, continues, cotqueans, countians, elections, enunciate, equations, inoculant, inoculate, insolence, latencies, lunations, nonequals, nucleates, quantiles, quiescent, sectional, selection, suctional, tenacious, tenancies, tensional.

-5 letters: acetones, aconites, actinons, alencons, aliquots, alnicoes, alunites, ancients, annulets.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-q-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: consequentially, inconsequential.

 

+3 letters: consequentiality.

 

+4 letters: consequentialness, inconsequentially.

 

+5 letters: consequentialities, inconsequentiality.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Quotations: Spoken
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Abbreviations
14. Acronyms
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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