About The Word Extraneous
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Extraneous
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What's The Definition Of Extraneous?
[adj] coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups"
[adj] not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play" [adj] 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" [adj] not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk" Synonyms | Synonyms for Extraneous: adulterant | adulterating | external | extrinsic | foreign | immaterial | impertinent | irrelevant | outside Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | outland | outlandish | outlying | out-of-the-way | 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 See Also | Extraneous In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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