irrelation

Roget category 10

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.2. Relation
›› 1.2.1. Absolute relation

#10. [Want, or absence of relation.] Irrelation

noun

irrelation^†, dissociation — misrelation^† — inapplicability — inconnection^† — multifariousness — disconnection etc. (disjunction) 44 — inconsequence, independence — incommensurability — irreconcilableness etc. (disagreement) 24 — heterogeneity — unconformity etc. 83 — irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem [Lat.] — intrusion etc. 24 — non-pertinence.

verb

have no relation to etc. 9 — have no bearing upon, have no concern with etc. 9, have no business with — not concern etc. 9 — have no business there, have nothing to do with, intrude etc. 24.
bring in head and shoulders, drag in head and shoulders, lug in head and shoulders.

adjective

irrelative^†, irrespective, unrelated — arbitrary — independent, unallied — unconnected, disconnected — adrift, isolated, insular — extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.
not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous — unconformable etc. 83.
irrelevant, inapplicable — not pertinent, not to the, purpose — impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes [Fr.] — aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point — misplaced etc. (intrusive) 24 — traveling out of the record.
remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing — detached, segregate — disquiparant^†.
multifarious — discordant etc. 24.
incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic.

adverb

parenthetically etc. adj. — by the way, by the by — en passant [Fr.], incidentally — irrespectively etc. adj. — without reference to, without regard to — in the abstract etc. 87 — a se.

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