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INCONSISTENTLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inconsistently mean?
• INCONSISTENTLY (adverb)
The adverb INCONSISTENTLY has 1 sense:
1. without showing consistency
Familiarity information: INCONSISTENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without showing consistency
Context example:
he acted inconsistently when he bought these stocks
Antonym:
consistently (in a systematic or consistent manner)
Pertainym:
inconsistent (displaying a lack of consistency)
Context examples
He seemed surprised—very inconsistently so, as he had just told me to go.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Cardiac Arrhythmias are heart-rhythm problems - they occur when the electrical impulses to the heart that coordinate heartbeats are not working properly, making the heart beat too fast/slow or inconsistently.
(Arrhythmia, NICHD)
He entertained me with great kindness, observing me not to look wildly, or talk inconsistently: and, when we were left alone, desired I would give him a relation of my travels, and by what accident I came to be set adrift, in that monstrous wooden chest.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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