'Extrinsic' definitions:
Definition of 'extrinsic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside; "extrinsic evidence"; "an extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for extrinsic aid" [ant: intrinsic, intrinsical]
Definition of 'Extrinsic'
From: GCIDE
- Extrinsic \Ex*trin"sic\, a. [L. extrinsecus; exter on the outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrins[`e]que. See Exterior, Second.]
- 1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. [1913 Webster]
- The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Anat.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part; -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extrinsic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquired,
- adrift,
- alien,
- apparent,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- conventionalized,
- cortical,
- epidermic,
- exomorphic,
- exotic,
- exterior,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraorganismal,
- extraterrestrial,
- foreign,
- foreign-born,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fringe,
- immaterial,
- impersonal,
- impertinent,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- intrusive,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- legalistic,
- nihil ad rem,
- nominal,
- nonessential,
- nonsubjective,
- not at issue,
- objective,
- off the subject,
- open,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- outer,
- outermost,
- outland,
- outlandish,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- outward-facing,
- parenthetical,
- pedantic,
- peripheral,
- public,
- roundabout,
- seeming,
- strange,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- ulterior,
- unearthly,
- unessential,
- unrelated