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nonsequitous

adj

Etymology

From non sequitur + -ous.

  1. learned borrowing from nōn sequitur
  2. suffixed as nonsequitous — “non sequitur + ous”

Definitions

  1. Having the form of a non sequitur

    Having the form of a non sequitur; not logically following from preceding statements or events.

    • Given their stated hurry in 4, Franklin's question seems oddly nonsequitous. Like his story in Sc. 9, we might see the stand-alone, bawdy comic routine to which this gives rise as moving the travellers some way along the route.
    • 53 The decision considered here does not, in its analysis, provide a detailed argument but rather sets out a number of seemingly nonsequitous 'considerations'.
    • Some was good, some was bad and some was so nonsensically nonsequitous that it confuses me even now to think about it. And yet, during all that time, I never learned his age, where he came from or where he went when he vanished.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA