extraneous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ex=tra=ne=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

extraneous, 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."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

extraneous, adj.
1 of external origin.
2 (often foll. by to) a separate from the object to which it is attached etc. b external to; irrelevant or unrelated to.

Derivative

extraneously adv. extraneousness n.

Etymology

L extraneus

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

extraneous

Extrinsicality

N extrinsicality, objectiveness, non ego, extraneousness, accident, appearance, phenomenon, derived from without, objective, extrinsic, extrinsical, extraneous, modal, adventitious, ascititious, adscititious, incidental, accidental, nonessential, contingent, fortuitous, implanted, ingrafted, inculcated, infused, outward, apparent, extrinsically.

Irrelation

N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.

Extraneousness

N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.