'Extraneous' definitions:
Definition of 'extraneous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
adjective
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]
adjective
Definition of 'Extraneous'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'extraneous'
From: 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,
- 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