extraneous
adjective
1 extraneous
Not pertinent to the matter under consideration:
— An issue extraneous to the debate.
synonyms: immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal.
Roget 6: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical†; extraneous etc. (foreign) 57; modal, adventitious; ascititious†, adscititious†; incidental, accidental, ... show more
Roget 10: irrelative†, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, ... show more
2 extraneous
Not essential.
3 extraneous
Not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source:
— Water free of extraneous matter.
synonym: foreign.
Roget 57: extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane. excluded etc. 55; inadmissible; exceptional.
4 extraneous
Coming from the outside:
— Extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph.
— Relying upon an extraneous income.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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