extraneous
introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign:extraneous substances in our water.
not pertinent; irrelevant: an extraneous remark; extraneous decoration.
Origin of extraneous
1Other words for extraneous
Opposites for extraneous
Other words from extraneous
- ex·tra·ne·ous·ly, adverb
- ex·tra·ne·ous·ness, noun
- non·ex·tra·ne·ous, adjective
- non·ex·tra·ne·ous·ly, adverb
- non·ex·tra·ne·ous·ness, noun
- un·ex·tra·ne·ous, adjective
- un·ex·tra·ne·ous·ly, adverb
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How to use extraneous in a sentence
The Senate can’t consider “extraneous” provisions requiring any proposals to alter federal spending or taxes in ways that are more than incidental to other policy aims, among other tests.
The $3.5 trillion budget bill could transform the US power sector—and slash climate pollution | James Temple | August 23, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIn addition, this pick comes with side hooks and a slatted shelf, which will let extraneous bits of soil just fall away to the ground, minimal cleanup required.
The best potting bench to make gardening fun and easy | Irena Collaku | July 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThey don’t want to go participate in any extraneous activities, and he was totally fine going to work.
Peacock's Dr. Death Is Based on A Chilling True Crime Podcast About a Murderous Surgeon. Here's What to Know | Mahita Gajanan | July 16, 2021 | TimeRunning the 62-second recording through commercially available software, he lifted out the extraneous to isolate the specific, especially voices.
Effective science communication always involves pruning out extraneous details, and that pruning process is inherently subjective.
The whole stack was re-evaluated—a “one-time decision,” said a memo from the advisory council, due to “extraneous circumstances.”
At This Creepy Libertarian Charter School, Kids Must Swear ‘to Be Obedient to Those in Authority’ | ProPublica | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is clean, precise, and devastating—nothing extraneous, nothing false—and it comes as close as any fiction I know to perfection.
You know where you find a clear, neat story with no extraneous details?
How Social Scientists, and the Rest of Us, Got Seduced By a Good Story | Megan McArdle | April 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe realized, as well, that there is a great deal of redundant information—extraneous bits—in human communication.
Her writing is marked by an utter lack of the extraneous, and bristles with a sense of the uncanny.
It was tightly clasped, and its boards were warped by having for years been obliged to embrace a number of extraneous sheets.
A Thin Ghost and Others | M. R. (Montague Rhodes) JamesThere were practically no burgesses extraneous to the Merchant Gild, though there were often Gildsmen who were not burgesses.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertWe saw, also, how there grew up a large class extraneous to the privileged Merchant Gild.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertYou defeated your end if you insisted on conditions, if you allowed anything extraneous to count as much as that.
The Creators | May SinclairHe lives on extraneous resources, the wages of labour, realised means, or the aid of his family.
British Dictionary definitions for extraneous
/ (ɪkˈstreɪnɪəs) /
not essential
not pertinent or applicable; irrelevant
coming from without; of external origin
not belonging; unrelated to that to which it is added or in which it is contained
Origin of extraneous
1Derived forms of extraneous
- extraneously, adverb
- extraneousness, noun
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