consequential

Following as a result.

Adjective

  1. Following as a result.
  2. Having significant consequences; of importance.
    • The more profound and consequential the issue, the more stubborn our denial. - 2023 September 18, Charles Hugh Smith, The Peculiar Power of Denial:
  3. Important or significant.
  4. Self-important.
    • He was a very short, fat little man, with immensely long grey side-whiskers, and a most consequential manner. - 1919, Lord Frederic Hamilton, The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday, page 69:

Origin

From consequent + -ial.

Forms

more consequential most consequential

Synonyms

considerable important

Antonyms

inconsequential

Derived

consequentialism consequentialist consequentialistic consequentiality consequentialize consequentially consequential mark consequentialness inconsequential nonconsequential unconsequential