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extraneousadjective not being a vital part of or belonging to somethingthe architect's streamlined modern style shuns any sort of extraneous ornamentation accidental, adventitious, alien, external, extrinsic, foreign, supervenient exterior, outsideimmaterial, inapplicable, insignificant, irrelevantnonessential, unessential, unnecessary inherent, innate, intrinsic congenital, deep-seated, inborn, inbredinside, interior, internalbasic, essential, necessary not having anything to do with the matter at handthe professor would have covered all of the course material if she had refrained from her extraneous remarks on just about everything immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, irrelative, irrelevant incidental, peripheral, tangent, tangentialdead, mootinconsequential, insignificant, unimportantempty, inane, meaningless, pointless, senseless, uselessinappropriate, inapt, unsuitable beside the point, neither here nor there applicable, apposite, apropos, germane, material, pertinent, pointed, relative, relevant important, meaningful, significantsensible, usefulappropriate, apt, fit, suitable extrinsic, extraneous, foreign, alien mean external to a thing, its essential nature, or its original character.extrinsic applies to what is distinctly outside the thing in question or is not contained in or derived from its essential nature.sentimental value that is extrinsic to the house's market value extraneous applies to what is on or comes from the outside and may or may not be capable of becoming an essential part.arguments extraneous to the issue foreign applies to what is so different as to be rejected or repelled or to be incapable of becoming assimilated.techniques foreign to French cuisine alien is stronger than foreign in suggesting opposition, repugnance, or irreconcilability.a practice totally alien to her nature in 1638 |