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Definition of consequential in English: consequentialadjective kɒnsɪˈkwɛnʃ(ə)lˌkɑnsəˈkwɛn(t)ʃəl 1Following as a result or effect. 作为结果的，由…而起的；随之发生的 a loss of confidence and a consequential withdrawal of funds 信心的丧失及随后的撤资。 Example sentencesExamples - I think it is very, very important that when you put a particular amendment, you clearly spell out, prior to the voting, what the consequential effect will be on voting for that amendment.
- The effluents from this factory have been shown to impact the surrounding environment, with the consequential adverse effects on food and water.
- Business interruption or consequential loss covers the loss of gross profit following an insured event due to loss of turnover and increased costs of working.
- However, the authors caution against prolonged use of any substance that could lead to a decreased intake of milk with consequential nutritional adverse effects.
- It deals with priorities, and makes some consequential appeals as a result of the amendments that are made, as well.
- However, the policy excluded, among other things, consequential losses resulting from the erasure, loss, distortion or corruption of information on computer systems.
- Part 2 discusses consequential repeals and amendments relating to the matters that we have discussed.
- Now, due to the popularity of concerts and the consequential accumulation of a small sum of money in reserve, it is possible to pay musicians a reasonable fee, and Macedon Music is now able to invite high-profile musicians to perform.
- This will be the case if the securing of the private benefit was not the object of the payment but merely a consequential and incidental effect of the payment.
- I shall return later to the associated ground of challenge on the basis that all this had an unfair consequential effect on the disciplinary proceedings.
- The prop suffered a broken nose last week in an incident, an alleged head butt, which sparked his retaliation and consequential red card.
- That fourth set loss and the consequential collapse of momentum would have destroyed the balance and composure of almost any athlete in any sport.
- To reduce costs in a structured and well planned manner that does not surprise the teams or result in unforeseen consequential costs.
- The modern centralised Sagha is largely a result of the development of the modern nation-state and the consequential centralisation of political power.
- That decision-making process was clearly affected by the provision of wrong information, with the consequential result that the opportunity to go elsewhere was lost.
- The consequential result of this increase in stressful appraisals is a decrease in psychological well-being.
Synonyms resulting, resultant, ensuing, consequent following, subsequent, successive, sequential attendant, accompanying, concomitant collateral, associated, related, connected, linked - 1.1Law Resulting from an act, but not immediately and directly.
〔律〕间接发生的，间接引起的 间接损害。 Example sentencesExamples - Clause 19.4 excludes all liability for indirect or consequential loss or damage on the part of either party.
- The claim is for the consequential damage suffered.
- If in the event of a correspondent bank's lapse the customer's bank or the correspondent itself is to be made liable, either at common law or by statute, the issue of consequential damages must be faced up to.
- It thus became the norm to bring case where the negligence of the defendant produced either immediate or consequential damage.
- This site and its owners are not liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising from your access to this site or any contents of this site.
Synonyms incidental, accidental, unintended, secondary, subordinate, ancillary, collateral, concomitant, accompanying, contingent, resulting, resultant, derived, derivative
2Important; significant. 重要的，重大的；有重要意义的 the new congress lacked consequential leaders 新的国会缺少起决定性作用的领导者。 Example sentencesExamples - What team members will discover is that all failure modes are not equally consequential.
- Additionally, what is important for one company team commander may not be as consequential to another.
- The answers to these and other important questions are monumentally consequential with respect to both prevention and intervention efforts.
- Evangelicals often referred to having accepted Christ (meaning their conversion) as the most consequential moment in their lives.
- They cannot determine which facts have important policy implications and which are less consequential.
- Warfare is important not just because the fortunes of battle are consequential but also because of the many kinds of conflict induced by state-led mobilizations of resources.
- The shocking reality is that he became a consequential president, an extremely important president, and one who might even be called a transformative president.
- Voters knew the stakes - polls showed majorities thought this was an important and consequential election - and both candidates had plenty of opportunity to make their cases.
- Matters as mundane as how quickly a programme is implemented can affect the possibility of meeting policy goals, and major administrative decisions can be even more consequential.
- But in the absence of intrepid investigative reporting and editorial courage, they smothered the audience in inconsequential material about the most consequential of topics.
- Because of their consequential increased holdings, men had to take them more seriously.
- Planning becomes more important when one considers the long-term nature of consequential decisions.
- Similarly the Buddha taught that human individuals are not to be seen as isolated from each other, but as conjoined to each other in a weighty and consequential relationship.
- It serves as an excellent first point of contact with such a consequential and weighty concept as reconciliation.
- Seriously, consequential cultural issues are at stake, not least the issue of finding ways for writers and other cultural workers to be fairly paid and support themselves from their work.
Synonyms important, significant, major, momentous, of moment, weighty, material, meaty, appreciable, memorable, far-reaching, life-changing, serious of consequence, of great import, of significance
Derivativesnoun kɒnsɪkwɛnʃɪˈalɪtiˌkɑnsəˌkwɛn(t)ʃiˈælədi By now, one of the film's main themes, consequentiality, has certainly been launched. Example sentencesExamples - In answer to this dilemma, his claim about consequentiality can be read as a claim about the contingency of musical relations: they arise during the musical experience.
- In the logic of consequentiality as they define it, ‘human behavior is driven by preferences and expectations about consequences.’
- It also does not become entirely clear how exactly, in this case, the logics of consequentiality, appropriateness, and interpersonal trust play into each other.
- 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.
adverbkɒnsɪˈkwɛnʃəliˌkɑnsəˈkwɛn(t)ʃəli Proponents of intelligent design take comfort in the idea that nature has been directed and that, consequentially, human beings are not the result of a random series of genetic accidents. Example sentencesExamples - Perversely this album recalls neither the studied club groove nor the agreeably dark pop embraced by its predecessor, and consequentially sounds strangely more accessible.
- We are detached from the characters and consequentially any moral or political dilemmas they might represent don't make themselves felt as an experience of watching the film.
- The deep recession experienced by Britain in common with much of the rest of the world meant that demand for labour was weak and the economic attractions of migration consequentially limited.
- Nothing effects our lives so consequentially as the choices we make with respect to where and how we live, study, how we choose a career, marriage, or investments that are in our best interest.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin consequentia (see consequence) + -al. Rhymescadential, confidential, credential, deferential, differential, essential, evidential, existential, experiential, exponential, influential, intelligential, irreverential, jurisprudential, penitential, pestilential, potential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, quintessential, referential, residential, reverential, sapiential, sciential, sentential, sequential, tangential, torrential Definition of consequential in US English: consequentialadjectiveˌkänsəˈkwen(t)SHəlˌkɑnsəˈkwɛn(t)ʃəl 1Following as a result or effect. 作为结果的，由…而起的；随之发生的 a loss of confidence and a consequential withdrawal of funds 信心的丧失及随后的撤资。 Example sentencesExamples - That decision-making process was clearly affected by the provision of wrong information, with the consequential result that the opportunity to go elsewhere was lost.
- The modern centralised Sagha is largely a result of the development of the modern nation-state and the consequential centralisation of political power.
- This will be the case if the securing of the private benefit was not the object of the payment but merely a consequential and incidental effect of the payment.
- The prop suffered a broken nose last week in an incident, an alleged head butt, which sparked his retaliation and consequential red card.
- To reduce costs in a structured and well planned manner that does not surprise the teams or result in unforeseen consequential costs.
- It deals with priorities, and makes some consequential appeals as a result of the amendments that are made, as well.
- I shall return later to the associated ground of challenge on the basis that all this had an unfair consequential effect on the disciplinary proceedings.
- That fourth set loss and the consequential collapse of momentum would have destroyed the balance and composure of almost any athlete in any sport.
- However, the authors caution against prolonged use of any substance that could lead to a decreased intake of milk with consequential nutritional adverse effects.
- Business interruption or consequential loss covers the loss of gross profit following an insured event due to loss of turnover and increased costs of working.
- Now, due to the popularity of concerts and the consequential accumulation of a small sum of money in reserve, it is possible to pay musicians a reasonable fee, and Macedon Music is now able to invite high-profile musicians to perform.
- Part 2 discusses consequential repeals and amendments relating to the matters that we have discussed.
- The consequential result of this increase in stressful appraisals is a decrease in psychological well-being.
- The effluents from this factory have been shown to impact the surrounding environment, with the consequential adverse effects on food and water.
- However, the policy excluded, among other things, consequential losses resulting from the erasure, loss, distortion or corruption of information on computer systems.
- I think it is very, very important that when you put a particular amendment, you clearly spell out, prior to the voting, what the consequential effect will be on voting for that amendment.
Synonyms resulting, resultant, ensuing, consequent - 1.1Law Resulting from an act, but not immediately and directly.
〔律〕间接发生的，间接引起的 间接损害。 Example sentencesExamples - This site and its owners are not liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising from your access to this site or any contents of this site.
- It thus became the norm to bring case where the negligence of the defendant produced either immediate or consequential damage.
- The claim is for the consequential damage suffered.
- Clause 19.4 excludes all liability for indirect or consequential loss or damage on the part of either party.
- If in the event of a correspondent bank's lapse the customer's bank or the correspondent itself is to be made liable, either at common law or by statute, the issue of consequential damages must be faced up to.
Synonyms incidental, accidental, unintended, secondary, subordinate, ancillary, collateral, concomitant, accompanying, contingent, resulting, resultant, derived, derivative
2Important; significant. 重要的，重大的；有重要意义的 perhaps the most consequential discovery of the eighteenth century Example sentencesExamples - Warfare is important not just because the fortunes of battle are consequential but also because of the many kinds of conflict induced by state-led mobilizations of resources.
- The shocking reality is that he became a consequential president, an extremely important president, and one who might even be called a transformative president.
- The answers to these and other important questions are monumentally consequential with respect to both prevention and intervention efforts.
- Voters knew the stakes - polls showed majorities thought this was an important and consequential election - and both candidates had plenty of opportunity to make their cases.
- Seriously, consequential cultural issues are at stake, not least the issue of finding ways for writers and other cultural workers to be fairly paid and support themselves from their work.
- Matters as mundane as how quickly a programme is implemented can affect the possibility of meeting policy goals, and major administrative decisions can be even more consequential.
- Additionally, what is important for one company team commander may not be as consequential to another.
- Planning becomes more important when one considers the long-term nature of consequential decisions.
- Similarly the Buddha taught that human individuals are not to be seen as isolated from each other, but as conjoined to each other in a weighty and consequential relationship.
- It serves as an excellent first point of contact with such a consequential and weighty concept as reconciliation.
- But in the absence of intrepid investigative reporting and editorial courage, they smothered the audience in inconsequential material about the most consequential of topics.
- What team members will discover is that all failure modes are not equally consequential.
- They cannot determine which facts have important policy implications and which are less consequential.
- Because of their consequential increased holdings, men had to take them more seriously.
- Evangelicals often referred to having accepted Christ (meaning their conversion) as the most consequential moment in their lives.
Synonyms important, significant, major, momentous, of moment, weighty, material, meaty, appreciable, memorable, far-reaching, life-changing, serious
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin consequentia (see consequence) + -al. |