extraneous

Word family

ex·tra·ne·ous /ɪkˈstreɪniəs/ adjectiveadj formal

1 CONNECTED WITH#not belonging to or directly related to a particular subject or problem 无关的；无直接联系的 SYN irrelevant

extraneous to

Such details are extraneous to the matter in hand.

这些细节与手头这件事并无直接联系。

2 OUT/OUTSIDEcoming from outside 外来的；外部的

extraneous noises

外面传来的噪声

Examples from the Corpus

extraneous• Judges already have substantial latitude to limit extraneous arguments that might mislead jurors; they could use it more often.• Her report contains too many extraneous details.• He knows a plethora of extraneous facts about the arctic and the tropics.• It did not want to undermine trust or uncover extraneous information that might damage agents' careers.• There is no extraneous information to interfere with the layout.• Great care must be taken to ensure that solutions are clean and free of extraneous matter.• extraneous military forces• Funding will depend on the sale of extraneous plots for other developments, not an easy matter in the current climate.• Essentially, the classic experimental design involves controlling all factors extraneous to the hypothesis of interest in order that this can be tested.

Origin extraneous

(1600-1700) Latin extraneus “foreign, strange”, from extra; → EXTRA-

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