inconsequential
adjective
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noun
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adverb
Synonyms & Antonyms for inconsequential
Synonyms
fiddling, foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, slight, small, small-fry, trifling, trivial, unimportant
Antonyms
big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, unfrivolous, weighty
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To a layperson or someone disconnected from many of the day-to-day plights of people of color, this may seem inconsequential, or even race-baiting. — Wired, "An AI-Run World Needs to Better Reflect People of Color," 6 Sep. 2019 While most TikTok users are posting short, largely inconsequential, videos set to music, Uighur Muslims are posting silent clips of themselves crying in front of photos of missing family members. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "Black Women Can’t Bridge the Gender Gap Alone: raceAhead," 22 Aug. 2019 Highlighting those items and many others, no matter how inconsequential, will reveal that Mueller is a human being subject to the same imperfections as are all humans. — Gary Abernathy, Twin Cities, "Gary Abernathy: GOP should welcome Mueller’s testimony," 23 July 2019 Schulz, for example, said that Woodstock wrestled with feeling small and inconsequential. — Michael Cavna, Twin Cities, "How Charles Schulz finally named that bird Woodstock after the 1969 music festival," 18 Aug. 2019 Schulz, for example, said that Woodstock wrestled with feeling small and inconsequential. — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, "How Woodstock — the bird — was inspired by the 1969 music festival," 15 Aug. 2019 Taking insights from Judeo-Christian Gnosticism and a strain of Platonic idealism, the Course asserts that the material world is ultimately inconsequential. — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, "Marianne Williamson Offers Priestly Wisdom for a Nation Adrift — Seriously," 12 Aug. 2019 And once again, perhaps by design, women’s pain is inconsequential. — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, "Drake’s Troubling Reunion With Chris Brown," 30 July 2019 The fire Bellinger admitted to setting was largely inconsequential and burned itself out. — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, "East Bay arson suspect pleads guilty to single count," 4 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inconsequential.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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inconsequential
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