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Important; following on
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consequential
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consequential \Con`se*quen"tial\, a. Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent. All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. --Locke. These kind of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision" [syn: eventful ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 following as a result 2 having significant consequences; of importance 3 something which is important or significant 4 someone who is self-important
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN loss ▪ There must of course be no consequential loss of quality. ▪ Industry sources say consequential loss claims could prove a greater burden than the building repair costs. ▪ Please not that you are not covered ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from consequent (Latin consequentia ) + -al (1). Meaning "pregnant with consequences, important" is recorded from 1728. Related: Consequentially (c.1600).
Usage examples of consequential.
If the country dog shows fite jest notis the consequential dignity with which the town dog retires.
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This appeared to Mr. Skimpole to be the drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good philosophy, always supposing the drone to be willing to be on good terms with the bee, which, so far as he knew, the easy fellow always was, if the consequential creature would only let him, and not be so conceited about his honey!
But in mythic societies, the nihilating offense is much more consequential, because an insult to the state is also an insult to God, and thus anything from excommunication to burning at the stake will be required for cultural therapia.
Her fees were exorbitant and her manner too consequential, but her creations were worth any price and her services desperatelb' in demand.
More than enough remained, however, to make life miserable with their coarse impudence, their petty tyranny, their ridiculously consequential airs.
Dismissing the observed proximate beings as a negligible distraction to be briskly dealt with, that which had sluggishly begun to stir moved on to more consequential activities.
And they edged into a little nook of the lobby, where they had a few minutes' confidential talk, during which the major looked grave and consequential, and carried his head high, nodding now and then with military decision.
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However in the light of the statements made by his learned friend, Mr Fescue, the defence were prepared to apologize and make financial reparation for the damage done to the plaintiff and his wife and for the scorn, ridicule and consequential loss of his profession .
He could explain the Home Rule issue and tell her what the odds were for a Liberal victory at the next election, even after Gladstone's failure to rescue Gordon from Khartoum and his consequential loss of popularity.
Time and again on this trip I had seen news stories that would elsewhere have been treated as colossal tragedies-a dozen people killed by floods in the South, ten crushed when a store roof collapsed in Texas, twenty-two dead in a snowstorm in the East-and each of them treated as a brief and not terribly consequential diversion between ads for hemorrhoid unguents and cottage cheese.
In all her consequential enumerations of the persons likely to leave their cards at Stanyon he could not recall ever to have heard her utter the name of Bolderwood.
As each retort became gruffer, and its consequential rebuttal more to the point, she felt Janet tremble.