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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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: 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: 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,
outside]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
external, extraneous cognitive load, extraneous variable, extraneous variables, foreign, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal, outside
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