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extraneous

[ik-strey-nee-uhs] / ɪkˈstreɪ ni əs /
ADJECTIVE
unneeded; irrelevant
Synonyms
STRONGEST
additional immaterial incidental nonessential superfluous supplementary unconnected unnecessary unrelated
WEAK
accidental adventitious beside the point extra foreign impertinent inadmissible inapplicable inapposite inappropriate inessential needless off the subject peripheral pointless redundant unessential
Antonyms
STRONGEST
essential important material necessary needed relevant
WEAK
appropriate basic integral national native pertinent
ADJECTIVE
foreign
Synonyms
STRONGEST
external
WEAK
adventitious alien exotic extrinsic out of place strange
Antonyms
WEAK
appropriate basic essential integral national native necessary needed pertinent relevant

Example Sentences

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These highly automated sites run 24/7 and can’t afford even tiny traces of extraneous gases or chemicals to contaminate their precision production, says Liu.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

"He was just quietly sitting there, taking script pages out, cutting them up, removing extraneous stuff like scene descriptions, and then sticking them back onto blank pages," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

News organizations routinely edit interviews, removing extraneous words and redundant phrases.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

One could read this strange, extraneous sight as Perkins’ attempt to send up our macabre fixation with death, rubbernecking at gruesome sights we should want to turn away from.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025

They have no compulsion to prevent one coming to harm through an extraneous agency such as gamma rays.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.