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extraneous

English

  1. 🔊 not essential
    “the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play”
  2. 🔊 not pertinent to the matter under consideration
    “an issue extraneous to the debate”
  3. 🔊 not belonging to that in which it is contained
    “water free of extraneous matter”
  4. 🔊 coming from the outside
    “extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 superfluo extraneous
  2. 🔊 ajeno extraneous, external

Similar words

external outside immaterial impertinent orthogonal foreign accidental added additional adrift adventitious alien apart barbarian barbaric barbarous beside the mark beside the point beside the question detached disconnected discrete disjunct disrelated