Extraneous
7 definitions retrieved  Extraneous \Ex*tra"ne*ous\, a. [L. extraneus, from extra. See Extra-, Strange.] Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter. [1913 Webster] Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. --Landor. -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]  extraneous adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal] 2: not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play" 3: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk" [syn: extraneous, foreign] 4: coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups" [syn: external, extraneous, outside]  extraneous idegen külsô tárgyhoznemtartozó  extraneous von außen extraneous belanglos adj extraneous körperfremd adj  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "extraneous": accidental, added, additional, adrift, adventitious, alien, apart, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, exotic, exterior, external, extra, extraorganismal, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, foreign, foreign-born, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incidental, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsequent, independent, inessential, insular, intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, isolated, needless, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonsubjective, not at issue, objective, off the subject, other, out of place, out-of-the-way, outland, outlandish, outlying, outside, outward, parenthetical, peripheral, pointless, remote, removed, segregate, separate, separated, strange, superfluous, supernumerary, ulterior, unaffiliated, unallied, unapt, unassociated, unconnected, unearthly, unessential, unfitting, unnecessary, unneeded, unrelatable, unrelated Extraneous related |
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