inconsequential, adj. 1. insignificant, inconsiderable, inappreciable, negligible, unimportant, of minor importance, of little or no account, no great shakes; trivial, trifling, petty, niggling; small, dinky, puny, piddling, Sl. small-time, Sl. two-bit.
2. inconsistent, illogical; irrelevant, inapplicable. See - inconsequent (defs. 2, 3). inconsiderable, adj. inconsequential, insignificant, negligible, unimportant; trivial, petty, niggling; small, puny, Sl. small-time. See - inconsequential (def. 1).
inconsiderate, adj. 1. unthoughtful, incogitant; unkind, uncharitable, unbenevolent, harsh, severe.
2. thoughtless, unthinking, unmindful, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, unobservant, regardless, undis-cerning, careless, uncircumspect; tactless, insensitive, unsolicitous, rude, boorish.
3. rash, reckless, precipitate, headlong, head over heels; overhasty; unwise, injudicious, imprudent, impolitic, indiscreet; ill-considered, ill-advised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, ill-contrived, misguided.
inconsistency, n. 1. inharmoniousness, inconsonance, dissonance, discordancy, absonance; incompatibility, inconformability, incongruity; discrepancy, divergence, disagreement, difference, dissimilarity, dissimilitude.
2. inconsequence, incoherence, uncohesiveness, gar-bledness, confusion; contrariety, contrast, contradistinction; illogicalness, unreasonableness, reasonlessness.
3. inconstancy, instability, unsteadiness, changeableness, mutability; capriciousness, fickleness, flightiness, erraticism, mercurialness.
4. contradiction, self-contradiction, paradox, oxymoron.
inconsistent, adj. 1. self-contradictory, paradoxical, oxymoronic; contradictory, contrary, conflicting; illogical, unreasonable, reasonless, contrary to reason, without rhyme or reason; incoherent, uncohesive, confused, garbled.
2. inharmonious, inconsonant, discordant, dissonant, absonant, clashing, jarring; incompatible, inconformable, incongruous, out of keeping, out of line, out of step; discrepant, divergent, disagreeing, different, dissimilar; at variance, at odds, at cross-purposes, in conflict.
3. inconstant, unstable, unsteady, changeable, mutable; capricious, fickle, erratic, mercurial, volatile.
inconsolable, adj. disconsolate, comfortless, heartbroken, broken-hearted, heartsick, sick at heart, soul-sick, sick to one's soul; forlorn, desolate, despairing, cheerless, joyless, hopeless; woebegone, wretched, miserable; overwhelmed, overcome, undone, stricken, crushed, bowed-down, prostrate with grief, Inf. broken-up, Inf. torn-up.
inconspicuous, adj. unnoticeable, half-visible, indistinct, indefinite; unobtrusive, unimposing, low-profile; modest, unostentatious, unassuming, low-key.
inconstant, adj. changeable, changeful, variable, mutable, permutable; unstable, unsteady, unsettled, unfixed; fickle, capricious, moody, volatile, mercurial, flighty, giddy; erratic, irregular, unmethodical, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, stop-and-go, come-and-go; uncertain, unsure, indecisive, irresolute, indefinite, vacillating, fluctuating, wavering, blowing hot and cold.