Irrelevant
[ɪ'relɪv(ə)nt] or [ɪ'rɛləvənt]
Definition
(adj.) having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue; 'an irrelevant comment'; 'irrelevant allegations' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inapplicable, impertinent, not relevant, not applicable, not to the point, foreign to the purpose, not bearing upon the point in question, having nothing to do with the matter, travelling out of the record.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See RELEVANT]
Editor: Segre
Definition
adj. not relevant.—n. Irrel′evancy.—adv. Irrel′evantly.
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Examples
- Government is then at once irrelevant and mischievous--a mere obstructive nuisance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Still, of course, if you said nothing to any one about the treaty these inquiries are irrelevant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The former is then thought to be purely intellectual and cognitive; the latter to be an irrelevant and intruding physical factor. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And politics, however pretentiously rhetorical about ideals, is irrelevant if the only method it knows is to ostracize the desires it cannot manage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No irrelevant questions; study in silence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is singularly irrelevant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If politics is irrelevant, it is certainly not because its subject matter is unimportant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is irrelevant to his work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Lily's smile again flowed into a slight laugh: her friend's importunity was beginning to strike her as irrelevant. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Helena hesitated, blushed, then made a very irrelevant remark. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There is much in the wording of this passage which is irrelevant to our point and which must be discounted to make it clear. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I fixed my eyes upon His Grace in unaffected astonishment at this irrelevant question. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mr. Fairlie's answer reached me by return of post, and proved to be wandering and irrelevant in the extreme. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The day for irrelevant statues, as for wall pictures, is over. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And all the while, Ursula, spell-bound, kept up her high-pitched thin, irrelevant song, which pierced the fading evening like an incantation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But surely this is somewhat irrelevant? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nothing could have seemed more irrelevant to Dorothea than insistence on her youth and sex when she was moved to show her human fellowship. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And it may not be irrelevant to inquire, whether similar prejudices do not prevail to some extent even among ourselves. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All three are in the region of dramatic system-making and myth, to which probabilities are irrelevant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My niece's irrelevant maid stared, and stood speechless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He kept the issues of politics narrow and irrelevant, and just because these really interesting questions could not be handled, politics was an over-advertised hubbub. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What was vital was overlaid and hidden by what was irrelevant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the ideal of annihilation becomes an irrelevant and meaningless phrase. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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