Tom has a hard time blocking out extraneous information.
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Extraneous
//ɛkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs//
Synonyms for "extraneous" (105 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (52)
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Synonyms
3 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 15 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- خَارِجِيّ adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- въ́ншен adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- чужд adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Dutch
3 entries- bijkomende adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- extra adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- vreemde adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Finnish
1 entries- asiaankuulumaton adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
French
1 entries- étranger adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
German
4 entries- fremd adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- nicht wesentlich adj (not essential or intrinsic)
- nicht zugehörig adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- unnötig adj (not essential or intrinsic)
Hungarian
1 entries- idegen adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Ido
1 entries- stranjera adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Irish
1 entries- coimhthíoch adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Latin
1 entries- extrāneus adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Portuguese
1 entries- estranho adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Russian
3 entries- вне́шний adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- посторо́нний adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- чу́ждый adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nepripadajući adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- stran adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Spanish
4 entries- ajeno adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- forano adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- foraño adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- foráneo adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Swedish
3 entries- främmande adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- ovidkommande adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
- yttre adj (not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Eliminate extraneous punctuation.
Source: tatoeba (10478491)
Love is what matters; everything else is extraneous.
Source: tatoeba (10522572)
Everything beyond food, water, and shelter is extraneous.
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