consequential

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: con=se=quen=tial

CIDE DICTIONARY

consequential, a. 

•  Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent.  [1913 Webster]

  "All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority."  [1913 Webster]

  "These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose."  [1913 Webster]
•  Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4.  [1913 Webster]

  "His stately and consequential pace."  [1913 Webster]

Consequential damage (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

consequential, adj.
1 following as a result or consequence.
2 resulting indirectly (consequential damage).
3 (of a person) self-important.

Derivative

consequentiality n. consequentially adv.

Etymology

L consequentia

THESAURUS

consequential

absolute, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, charismatic, charming, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, complacent, comprehensive, consequent, considerable, conspicuous, controlling, deep, derivational, derivative, dominant, double-barreled, duly constituted, earthshaking, effective, effectual, efficacious, eminent, empowered, enchanting, ensuing, estimable, ex officio, exhaustive, final, following, full, governing, grand, grave, great, heavy, heavyweight, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high-powered, imperative, important, in the limelight, influential, intense, irresistible, leading, magnetic, main, major, material, maximum, meaningful, mighty, momentous, monocratic, name, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, official, outstanding, overproud, overweening, personable, persuasive, plenary, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, puissant, ranking, reputable, resultant, resulting, ruling, self-admiring, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacent, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-loving, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, senior, sequacious, sequent, sequential, serious, significant, smug, strong, suasive, substantial, superior, supreme, telling, to the front, total, totalitarian, vain, vainglorious, weighty, winning, world-shaking

ROGET THESAURUS

consequential

Pride

N pride, dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti, pride, haughtiness, high notions, hauteur, vainglory, crest, arrogance, proud man, highflier, fine gentleman, fine lady, dignified, stately, proud, proud-crested, lordly, baronial, lofty- minded, highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high- plumed, high-flown, high-toned, haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown, vainglorious, purse-proud, fine, proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer, bloated with pride, supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential, arrogant, unblushing, stiff, stiff-necked, starch, perked stuck-up, in buckram, strait- laced, prim, on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes, on stilts, en grand seigneur, with head erect, odi profanum vulgus et arceo, a duke's revenues on her back, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon, pride in their port, defiance in their eye.

Demonstration

N demonstration, proof, rigorous proof, conclusiveness, apodeixis, apodixis, probation, comprobation, logic of facts, experimentum crucis, argument, rigorous establishment, absolute establishment, conviction, cogency, (persuasion), demonstrating, demonstrative, demonstrable, probative, unanswerable, conclusive, apodictic, apodeictic, apodeictical, irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable, necessary, categorical, decisive, crucial, demonstrated, proven, unconfuted, unanswered, unrefuted, evident, deducible, consequential, consectary, inferential, following, convincing, cogent, persuasive (believable), of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course, necessarily, of necessity, probatum est, there is nothing more to be said, quod est demonstrandum, Q, E, D, it must follow, exitus acta probat.