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発音

• (Canada) IPA: /ɪnˌkɑnsəˈkwɛnʃəl/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪnˌkɒn.səˈkwɛn.ʃəl/

形容詞

inconsequential (comparative more inconsequential, superlative most inconsequential)

1. Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.

   Synonyms: unimportant, negligible, trivial, trifling; see also Thesaurus:insignificant

   You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential.

   • 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:

     “ […] 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 you want it is gone—” He broke off uneasily.

2. Not logically following from the premises.

派生語

• inconsequentiality
• inconsequentially
• inconsequentialness

名詞

inconsequential (plural inconsequentials)

1. Something unimportant; something that does not matter.