inconsequent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=con=se=quent

CIDE DICTIONARY

inconsequent, a. [L. inconsequens: cf. F. inconséquent. See In- not, and Consequent.].

 Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.  [1913 Webster]
"Loose and inconsequent conjectures."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inconsequent, adj.
1 not following naturally; irrelevant.
2 lacking logical sequence.
3 disconnected.

Derivative

inconsequence n. inconsequently adv.

Etymology

L inconsequens (as IN-(1), CONSEQUENT)

THESAURUS

inconsequent

abnormal, absonant, absurd, adrift, anomalous, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, contradictory, contrary to reason, disproportionate, extraneous, extrinsic, fallacious, faulty, flawed, illogical, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inauthentic, incidental, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsistent, inconsonant, invalid, irrational, irreconcilable, irrelative, irrelevant, loose, measly, niggling, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonscientific, not at issue, not following, off the subject, out of proportion, out-of-the-way, oxymoronic, paltry, paradoxical, paralogical, parenthetical, peanut, pettifogging, picayune, picayunish, reasonless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, small, trifling, trivial, unauthentic, unconnected, unessential, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unscientific, without reason

ROGET THESAURUS

inconsequent

& Sophistry

N intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling, presentiment, premonition, rule of thumb, superstition, astrology, faith (supposition), sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion, chicane, chicanery, quiddet, quiddity, mystification, special pleading, speciousness, nonsense, word sense, tongue sense, false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning, petitio principii, ignoratio elenchi, post hoc ergo propter hoc, non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius, misjudgment, false teaching, sophism, solecism, paralogism, quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet, inconsistency, antilogy, a delusion, a mockery, and a snare, claptrap, cant, mere words, lame and impotent conclusion, meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry, flaw in an argument, weak point, bad case, overrefinement, hairsplitting, intuitive, instinctive, impulsive, independent of reason, anterior to reason, gratuitous, hazarded, unconnected, unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid, unwarranted, not following, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, absonous, absonant, unscientific, untenable, inconclusive, incorrect, fallacious, fallible, groundless, unproved, non sequitur, it does not follow, deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical, illusive, illusory, specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum, evasive, irrelevant, weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague, irrational, nonsensical, foolish, frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling, finespun, overrefined, at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin, intuitively, by intuition, illogically, non constat, that goes for nothing.