extraneous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: extraneous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for extraneous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
extraneous adj not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" Synonym(s): extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play" not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk" Synonym(s): extraneous, foreign coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups" Synonym(s): external, extraneous, outside
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extraneous \Extra"neous\, 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. Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. --Landor. -- {Extra"neous*ly}, adv.