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UK
/kˌɒnsɪkwˈɛnʃəl/
]
[ US /ˌkɑnsəˈkwɛnʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌkɑnsəˈkwɛnʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having important issues or results
the year's only really consequential legislation
an eventful decision
How To Use consequential In A Sentence
- But if not, remember, her behavior may seem glaring to you, but may be inconsequential and unapparent to others.
- It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
- Clause 19.4 excludes all liability for indirect or consequential loss or damage on the part of either party.
- The destruction of buildings seems less consequential than the destruction of human lives. Times, Sunday Times
- Their view is called 'act consequentialism'. The Times Literary Supplement
- Lawyers acting for the victims - including the parents of twins who suffered kidney failure - are claiming damages for injury and consequential loss. The Sun
- To finish the portrait, the bearing of the gracious Duncan was brief, bluff, and consequential, and the upward turn of his short copper-coloured nose indicated that he was somewhat addicted to wrath and usquebaugh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- We know that the surgeon may not kill one of her unconsenting patients to save five others, and we know that this must be so regardless of whether a careful consequentialist calculus supports this result.
- Things that are inconsequential stop fights taking place. Times, Sunday Times
- But the noose and lifeline metaphors dramatize the in-culture ‘factness’ of much writing, its consequentiality, rather than the seductive pleasures of its speculative realm.