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Extraneous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Not constituting a vital element or part.

adj. Inessential or unrelated to the topic or matter at hand; irrelevant. See Synonyms at irrelevant.

adj. Coming from the outside: extraneous interference.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign

adj. Not essential or intrinsic

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not belonging or proper to a thing; not intrinsic or essential, though attached; foreign: as, to separate gold from extraneous matter; extraneous ornaments or observances.

Synonyms See exterior.

In music, not belonging to a standard scale or key; chromatic.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. not pertinent to the matter under consideration

adj. coming from the outside

adj. not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source

adj. not essential

Word Usage

"But as far as an "emergency fund," which I define as extraneous and unexpected expenses hospital bill, car wreck, etc."

Equivalent

irrelevant extrinsic adulterating adulterant

Cross Reference

extraneous modulation extraneous root extraneous body extraneous factor

Form

extraneousness extraneously

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

foreign intrusive additional alien superfluous

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

contemporaneous miscellaneous percutaneous simultaneous spontaneous

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

incidental trivial unwanted external adventitious