irrelevant

irrelevant
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. inappropriate, unfitting, unrelated, inconsistent, inapplicable. See disagreement.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. 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 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
impertinent, immaterial, unrelated, beside the point, not germane, unconnected, inapplicable, neither here nor there, extraneous.
ANT.: relevant, pertinent, germane
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) 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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  • irrelevant — irrelevant …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • irrelevant — ir·rel·e·vant /ir re lə vənt/ adj: not relevant: not applicable or pertinent irrelevant allegations irrelevant evidence compare immaterial ir·rel·e·vant·ly adv Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webst …   Law dictionary

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  • Irrelĕvant — (v. lat.), unerheblich …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Irrelevánt — (lat.), »unerheblich«, unwichtig, geringfügig; Irrelevantia, unerhebliche, geringfügige Dinge …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Irrelevánt — (neulat.), unerheblich, ohne Bedeutung; Irrelevánz, Unerheblichkeit …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • irrelevant — (adj.) 1680s, from assimilated form of IN (Cf. in ) (1) not, opposite of + RELEVANT (Cf. relevant). Related: Irrelevantly …   Etymology dictionary

  • irrelevant — [adj] beside the point extraneous, foreign, garbage, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inappurtenant, inapropos, inapt, inconsequent, inconsequential, insignificant, not connected with, not germane, not pertaining… …   New thesaurus

  • irrelevant — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not relevant. DERIVATIVES irrelevance noun irrelevancy noun (pl. irrelevancies) irrelevantly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • irrelevant — [i rel′ə vənt] adj. not relevant; not pertinent; not to the point; not relating to the subject irrelevance n. irrelevancy n. pl. Irrelevancies irrelevantly adv …   English World dictionary

  • irrelevant — adj. 1) irrelevant to 2) irrelevant to + inf. (it s irrelevant to cite such outdated evidence) 3) irrelevant that + clause (it s irrelevant that she was out of town) * * * [ɪ relɪv(ə)nt] irrelevant to irrelevant that + clause (it s irrelevant… …   Combinatory dictionary

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