Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CON'SCION-A-BLE, a.

Having no sense of good and evil. Spenser.

IN-CON'SE-QUENCE, n. [L. inconsequentia.]

Want of just inference; inconclusiveness. Stillingfleet.

IN-CON'SE-QUENT, a.

Not following from the premises; without regular inference; as, an inconsequent deduction or argument. Brown.

IN-CON-SE-QUEN'TIAL, a.

1. Not regularly following from the premises.
2. Not of consequence; not of importance; of little moment. Chesterfield.

IN-CON-SE-QUEN-TIAL'I-TY, n.

State of being of no consequence.

IN-CON-SID'ER-A-BLE, a. [in and considerable.]

Not worthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial. We speak of an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity or amount; inconsiderable value. No sin is inconsiderable in the sight of a holy God.

IN-CON-SID'ER-A-BLE-NESS, n.

Small importance. Tillotson.

IN-CON-SID'ER-A-BLY, adv.

In a small degree; to a small amount; very little.

IN-CON-SID'ER-A-CY, n.

Thoughtlessness; want of consideration. [Unusual.] Chesterfield.

IN-CON-SID'ER-ATE, a. [L. inconsideratus. See Consider.]

1. Not considerate; not attending to the circumstances which regard safety or propriety; hasty; rash; imprudent; careless; thoughtless; heedless; inattentive. The young are generally inconsiderate.
2. Proceeding from heedlessness; rash; as, inconsiderate conduct.
3. Not duly regarding; with of, before the subject; as, inconsiderate of consequences.

IN-CON-SID'ER-ATE-LY, adv.

Without due consideration or regard to consequences; heedlessly; carelessly; rashly; imprudently. Addison.

IN-CON-SID'ER-ATE-NESS, n.

Want of due regard to consequences; carelessness; thoughtlessness; inadvertence; inattention; imprudence. Tillotson.

IN-CON-SID-ER-A'TION, n. [Fr.; in and consideration.]

Want of due consideration; want of thought; inattention to consequences. Taylor.

IN-CON-SIST'ENCE, or IN-CON-SIST'EN-CY, n. [in and consistence.]

1. Such opposition or disagreement as that one proposition infers the negation of the other; such contrariety between things that both can not subsist together. There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt and that which is of free gift. Smith.
2. Absurdity in argument or narration; argument or narrative where one part destroys the other; self-contradiction. Johnson.
3. Incongruity; want of agreement or uniformity; as, the inconsistency of a man with himself.
4. Unsteadiness; changeableness.

IN-CON-SIST'ENT, a.

1. Incompatible; incongruous; not suitable. Loud laughter in grave company is inconsistent with good breeding. Habitual gloom is inconsistent with health and happiness.
2. Not consistent; contrary, so that one infers the negation or destruction of the other; or so that the truth of one proves the other to be false. Two covenants, one that man shall have an estate in fee, and the other that he shall hold it for years, are inconsistent.
3. Not uniform; being contrary at different times. Men are sometimes inconsistent with themselves.

IN-CON-SIST'ENT-LY, adv.

With absurdity; incongruently; with self-contradiction; without steadiness or uniformity.

IN-CON-SIST'ENT-NESS, n.

Inconsistency. [Not in use.] More.

IN-CON-SIST'ING, a.

Inconsistent. [Not used.] Dryden.

IN-CON-SOL'A-BLE, a. [in and consolable.]

Not to be consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort. Addison.

IN-CON-SOL'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner or degree that does not admit of consolation.

IN-CON'SO-NANCE, n.

Disagreement of sounds; discordance. Busby.

IN-CON'SO-NAN-CY, n. [in and consonancy.]

Disagreement; inconsistency. In music, disagreement of sounds; discordance.

IN-CON'SO-NANT, a.

Not agreeing; inconsistent; discordant.

IN-CON'SO-NANT-LY, adv.

Inconsistently; discordantly.

IN-CON'SPIC'U-OUS, a. [in and conspicuous.]

1. Not discernible; not to be perceived by the sight. Boyle.
2. Not conspicuous.