irrelevant
not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
Law. (of evidence) having no probative value upon any issue in the case.
Origin of irrelevant
1pronunciation note For irrelevant
Other words from irrelevant
- ir·rel·e·vant·ly, adverb
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How to use irrelevant in a sentence
Topsheets, it turns out, are irrelevant when you’re eating maple-miso salmon in the middle of the wilderness.
Ease into Winter with Backcountry-Approved Comfort Food | Christina Bernstein | November 12, 2020 | Outside OnlineThe judge did not take a position on the matter, other than to note that the veracity of such statements would be irrelevant to the question of whether such speech should be prohibited.
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Utterly irrelevantly, Stanton brushed him aside, and began to rummage anxiously among the books on his table.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell Abbott"I associate you with the country and green things," he answered irrelevantly.
Mary Gray | Katharine TynanQuite irrelevantly, Jill's words in the tunnel came back to him.
A World is Born | Leigh Douglass Brackett"I helped a feller and got misjudged," he added irrelevantly.
Tom Slade with the Colors | Percy K. FitzhughOf course, the case of the department-store buyer and the teamster is irrelevantly extreme.
The Women of Tomorrow | William Hard
British Dictionary definitions for irrelevant
/ (ɪˈrɛləvənt) /
not relating or pertinent to the matter at hand; not important
Derived forms of irrelevant
- irrelevance or irrelevancy, noun
- irrelevantly, adverb
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