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Another word for irrelevant

irrelevant Synonyms

irrelevant

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inapplicable, unrelated, extraneous, impertinent, off the topic, inappropriate, inconsequent, inconsequential, immaterial, unconnected, inapropros, not germane, beside the point, off the point, foreign, beside the question, out of order, out of place, not to the purpose, pointless, trivial, not connected with, not pertaining to, without reference to, out of the way, remote, tangential, neither here nor there*; see also trivial, unnecessary.

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Another word for irrelevant

adjective

Not relevant or pertinent to the subject; not applicable:

extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable. Idioms: beside the point, neither here nor there. See relevant

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He deletes what strikes him as irrelevant, or tedious, or uninteresting to his readers.
The strict rules of their noble births seemed irrelevant now.
Physically incapable of rising to passionate heights of oratory, Cotta's successes were chiefly due to his searching investigation of facts; he kept strictly to the essentials of the case and avoided all irrelevant digressions.
Their confusing effect, for modern readers, is increased by a curiously irrelevant prologue.
In this case it was irrelevant, but Sam wouldn't have any way of knowing that.

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