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germane [ jer-meyn ] SHOW IPA
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adjective
closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent: Please keep your statements germane to the issue.
Obsolete . closely related.
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OTHER WORDS FROM germane ger·mane·ly, adverb ger·mane·ness, noun non·ger·mane, adjective un·ger·mane, adjective
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How to use germane in a sentence That’s not actually very germane to the core design of the car, but it’s a necessary evil to specify the car.
So the question of real-world impact was just not germane at all.
The app said some other things that didn’t seem germane , and I turned it off, for once in my life satisfied with what I had.
So perhaps the show’s most germane aspect is not the towering scale of its largest pieces, but its collaboration of techniques.
Germane and relevant in their way, but wielding a different methodology.
The captions have that jarring omniscient-narrator tone germane to tabloids.
But he already repulses me for other reasons that are far more germane to the presidency.
Certain to avoid talking politics in front of the hypersensitive cameras, Boehner opted for the more germane .
That means his character and beliefs are more germane to her candidacy than those of other political spouses.
The subject assigned me is incidental rather than germane to the work of this Congress.
The series of resolutions, as introduced by the honorable Senator from Mississippi, are germane one to the other.
Thou Germane prince of plants, each year to thee,Thousands of subjects grant a subsidy.
One is not the incident of the other, nor in any respect germane to the other.
This is a digression, but very germane to the matter in hand.
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British Dictionary definitions for germane
adjective
(postpositive usually foll by to ) related (to the topic being considered); akin; relevant an idea germane to the conversation
Derived forms of germane germanely , adverb germaneness , noun Word Origin for germane variant of german ²
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