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Definition: Consequential |
ConsequentialAdjective1. 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) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| conloss | English | Consequential loss | Insurance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ConsequentialSynonym: eventful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Consequential |
| English words defined with "consequential": Consequentialness ♦ eventful, Eventtual ♦ Indirect claims. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Rarely has the world faced a choice more clear or consequential. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.53% | 201 | 21,536 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.47% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 204 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
consequential | 68 |
consequential damages | 10 |
consequential idea | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | 간 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consequentia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "consequential" (pronounced kÄ'nsukwe"nkhul) |
| 12 | k Ä' n s u k w e" n kh u l | inconsequential. |
| 9 | -s u k w e" n kh u l | sequential. |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | credential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, tangential, influential, nonessential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, reverential, torrential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, substantial, insubstantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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