Inconsequent

Definition: Inconsequent

Inconsequent

Adjective

1. Lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet".

Date "inconsequent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonym: Inconsequent

Synonym: inconsequential (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Reasoning,	Unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous, absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Inconsequent

English words defined with "inconsequent": inconsequential. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inconsequent": syllogism. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Inconsequent" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (inconsistent).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. (See LOGIC.)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Inconsequent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inconsequent" is used about 4 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)	100%	4	175,879

Language		Translations for "inconsequent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		inkonsekuent (inconsecutive), i palogjikë, pa lidhje (desultory, discursive, disjointed, extraneous, inapposite, rambling, unconnected), jashtë teme (excursive). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير منطقي (illegitimate, illogical, inconsequential, irrational, mad), ‏غير مترابط (abrupt, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, incoherent, ragged, rambling, scrappy). (various references)

Bulgarian		неуместен (ill-judged, impertinent, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inept, inexpedient, injudicious, inopportune, irrelevant, mistaken, out of place, unadvised, uncalled for, unfortunate, unseasonable, unsuitable), несвързан (confused, delirious, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjointed, incoherent, irrelative, loose, rambling, rhapsodic, scrappy, unconnected, unrelated), непоследователен (contradictious, desultory, fanciful, incoherent, inconsecutive, inconsequential, inconsistent, undigested), маловажен (footling, futile, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, last, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, pettifogging, petty, puerile, side, small time, trifling, two-by-four, unimportant). (various references)

Chinese		不连贯 (incoherent). (various references)

Czech		nedùsledný (desultory, inconsecutive, inconsistent). (various references)

French		inconséquent (inconsequential, inconsistent). (various references)

German		folgewidrig (inconsistent). (various references)

Greek		ασυνεπήσ (inconsistent), ανακόλουθοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		logikátlan (illogical, inconsequential). (various references)

Italian		inconseguente (inconsequential, inconsistent), incongruente (incongruous, inconsistent), illogico (illogical). (various references)

Korean		비논리 (illogical). (various references)

Manx		neueiyrtysagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		inconsequentay

Portuguese		inconsequente (incombustibility, incondensable, inconsecutive, inconsistent, inconsolable), ilógico (illogical, inconclusive, inconsequence, inconsistent, irrational, preposterous), falta de lógica. (various references)

Romanian		neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, immaterial, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, piffling, slender, slight, small, trifling, trivial). (various references)

Russian		непоследовательный (discursive, inconsecutive, inconsequential, inconsistent, unagreeable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesledstven, nedosledan (inconsecutive, inconsequential, spotty, unconforming). (various references)

Spanish		inconsecuente (inconsequential, inconsistent). (various references)

Swedish		inte följdriktig (inconsequential), inkonsekvent (illegitimate, inconsecutive, inconsequential, inconsistent), oviktig (immaterial, inconsequential, indifferent, inessential, light, minor, of no account, of no importance, unimportant), osammanhängande (abrupt, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, disjointed, inarticulate, incoherent, inconsequential, scrappy), ologisk (illegitimate, illogical, inconsequential, inconsistent), obetydlig (baubling, dinky, fiddling, footling, fractional, fractionary, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, low, lowly, mean, minute, negligible, nobody, nugatory, one horse, peddling, picayune, piddling, slight, tenuous, trivial), betydelselös (importless, inconsequential, insignificant, jerkwater, of no importance, straw, unimportant). (various references)

Turkish		tutarsız (abrupt, as thin as a wafer, choppy, conflicting, contradictious, contradictory, desultory, disconnected, discursive, disjointed, double-minded, incoherent, inconsequential, inconsistent, precarious, rambling, unconnected, wafer-thin, wayward), mantıksız (absurd, illegitimate, illogical, implausible, impractical, inadvisable, inconsequential, injudicious, insensate, irrational, opaque, preposterous, senseless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unreasonable, unreasoning, wacky), konu dışı (digressive, inconsequential, irrelevant, out of question, wide off the mark), alâkasız (does not apply, far out, inapplicable, inconsequential, irrelevant, unconnected, unrelated). (various references)

Ukranian		непослідовний (discursive, inconsequential, inconsistent), недоречний (ill timed, ill-placed, impertinent, impolitic, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconsequential, irrelevant, mistaken, uncalled for, unhappy). (various references)

Vietnamese		không hợp lý (inconsequential, irrational), không ăn nhập đâu v� o đâu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inconsequent": inconsequential, inconsequentialities, inconsequentiality, inconsequentially, inconsequently. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "inconsequent" (pronounced 'In*con"se*quent'): Altiloquent, Diversiloquent, Eloquent, Fatiloquent, grandiloquent, Ineloquent, infrequent, Largiloquent, magniloquent, Melliloquent, Obsequent, Overfrequent, Pauciloquent, Polyloquent, Sanctiloquent, Stultiloquent, Suaviloquent, subsequent, Veriloquent. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-n-n-o-q-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: consequent.
	-3 letters: continues, innocents, noninsect, quiescent.
	-4 letters: centones, conquest, continue, counties, enounces, inconnus, innocent, neotenic, nescient, question, quietens, quinones, seicento, unctions.
	-5 letters: cenotes, cinques, coesite, conines, consent, contuse, coquets, cutesie, enounce, entices, equines, equites, incense, inconnu, inquest, intense, intones, neuston, nonsuit, notices, nuncios, outseen, quieten, quinces, quinone, quintes, section, senecio, sequent, suction, tennies, tension, tunnies, unction.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-n-n-o-q-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: inconsequently.
	+3 letters: inconsequential.
	+5 letters: consequentialness, inconsequentially.
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