EXTRANEOUS DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
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 - cegnob Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) extraneous adjective Etymology: Latin extraneus — more at strange Date: 1638 1. existing on or coming from the outside <extraneous light> 2. a. not forming an essential or vital part <extraneous ornamentation> b. having no relevance <an extraneous digression> 3. being a number obtained in solving an equation that is not a solution of the equation <extraneous roots> Synonyms: see extrinsic • extraneously adverb • extraneousness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary extraneous Extraneous things are not relevant or essential to the situation you are involved in or the subject you are talking about. (FORMAL) We ought not to bring in extraneous matters in trying to find a basis for a settlement... ADJ: usu ADJ n English Explanatory Dictionary extraneous eksˈtreɪnjəs adj. 1 of external origin. 2 (often foll. by to) a separate from the object to which it is attached etc. b external to; irrelevant or unrelated to. øøextraneously adv. extraneousness n. [L extraneus] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. --Landor. -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms extraneous a. 1. Foreign, extrinsic. 2. Non-pertinent, not germane, unessential, superfluous. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) extraneous eksˈtreɪnjəs adj. 1 unessential, non-essential, inessential, peripheral, superfluous, unnecessary, unneeded, extra, added, additional, adventitious, supernumerary, incidental, needless: Filter out all the extraneous substances. 2 not pertinent, impertinent, inapplicable, inapt, unapt, unfitting, inappropriate, unrelated, irrelevant, inapposite, unconnected, remote, alien, foreign, exotic, strange, outlandish, external, extrinsic, external, out of place, off the mark or point or subject, beside the point or mark: Why must you constantly bring up extraneous matters? Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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