Extraneous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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