Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not constituting an essential or vital element or part.
- adjective Unrelated to the topic or matter at hand. synonym: irrelevant.
- adjective Coming from the outside.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, not belonging to a standard scale or key; chromatic.
- Not belonging or proper to a thing; not intrinsic or essential, though attached; foreign: as, to separate gold from
extraneous matter; extraneous ornaments or observances. - Synonyms See
exterior .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without orbeyond a thing;foreign - adjective Not
essential orintrinsic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- adjective coming from the outside
- adjective not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
- adjective not essential
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But as far as an "emergency fund," which I define as extraneous and unexpected expenses hospital bill, car wreck, etc.
Your Emergency Fund Or Your Debt? | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The other thing to be aware of when looking at fonts is what I call extraneous fonts.
Tutorial Blog 2008
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This book also they call extraneous, which some of the Jews prohibit to be read.
The Canon of the Old and New Testaments Ascertained, or The Bible Complete without the Apocrypha and Unwritten Traditions. 1772-1851 1851
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Although so much of it is too entrancing to be termed extraneous, it does mean a director has to deal with the abundant non-libretto passages.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Richard Strauss's Mezz-a-Mezz Intermezzo David Finkle 2010
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Although so much of it is too entrancing to be termed extraneous, it does mean a director has to deal with the abundant non-libretto passages.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Richard Strauss's Mezz-a-Mezz Intermezzo David Finkle 2010
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Although so much of it is too entrancing to be termed extraneous, it does mean a director has to deal with the abundant non-libretto passages.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Richard Strauss's Mezz-a-Mezz Intermezzo David Finkle 2010
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Although so much of it is too entrancing to be termed extraneous, it does mean a director has to deal with the abundant non-libretto passages.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Richard Strauss's Mezz-a-Mezz Intermezzo David Finkle 2010
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What Democrats said is that they also offered the president another carrot, if you will, and that is to cut off some of the -- what the White House called extraneous domestic spending on this emergency bill.
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But it is true that observing that there are certain thoughts which arise neither from external objects nor from the determination of my will, but only from my faculty of thinking; in order to mark the difference between the ideas or the notions which are the forms of these thoughts, and to distinguish them from the others, which may be called extraneous or voluntary, I have called them innate.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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These excisable songs are perhaps best described as extraneous genre exercises (most specifically, the just a little bit too cute "I Did What I Did").
Blogtimore, Hon Matt Byars 2009
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