inconsequential
/ɪnˌkɒn.səˈkwɛn.ʃəl/
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Canada/ɪnˌkɑnsəˈkwɛnʃəl/
inconsequential adjective: having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.
Adjective
inconsequential (comparative more inconsequential, superlative most inconsequential)
- Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.
- You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential.
- “[…]Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made...1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “A Matter of Civilization”, in The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 3, page 341
- Synonyms:
- unimportant, negligible, trivial, trifling, base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile
- Not logically following from the premises.
Noun
inconsequential (plural inconsequentials)
- Something unimportant; something that does not matter.
inconsequential meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
inconsequential in Urdu
- ادنیٰ, بےربط, بلا دلیل, چھوٹا, غیرمنطقی, ناقص
inconsequential in Bengali
- অপ্রাসঙ্গিক, তুচ্ছ
inconsequential in Malayalam
- of little consequence, of no consequence, insignificant
- തുച്ഛം, സ്വല്പ, ലഘ്വർത്ഥ, അപ്രധാനം, അഗൗരവ, അപ്രസക്ത
inconsequential in Kannada
- ಮುಖ್ಯವಲ್ಲದ, ಕ್ಷುಲ್ಲಕ, ಹುರುಳಿಲ್ಲದ, ಕ್ಷುದ್ರ, ಅರಿದಲ್ಲದ, ಲೆಕ್ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾರದ
Examples of inconsequential in a sentence
- A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.
- The essence of dehumanization is not to see someone, to render him inconsequential and invisible.
- But such tricks are inconsequential alongside the boundless and varied delights of the lunch hour.
Synonyms of inconsequential
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Forms of inconsequential
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more inconsequential |
| superlative | most inconsequential |
| Noun | |
| plural | inconsequentials |
Origin of inconsequential
From in- + consequential.
Words formed from inconsequential
Questions about inconsequential
- What does inconsequential mean?
- Inconsequential means having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.
- What is inconsequential in Urdu?
- Inconsequential in Urdu is ادنیٰ, بےربط, بلا دلیل. See Inconsequential meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is inconsequential?
- Inconsequential can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce inconsequential?
- Inconsequential is pronounced /ɪnˌkɑnsəˈkwɛnʃəl/ (Canada).
Words near inconsequential in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: inconsequential (page history and authors); inconsequential (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inconsequential (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inconsequential (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inconsequential (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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