Irrelevant

/ɪˈɹɛl.ə.vənt/

Synonyms for "irrelevant" (216 found)

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Closest matches (44)

adrift alienback burnerback-burnerbeside the markbeside the pointbeside the questiondinky dispensable extraneous extrinsic foreign gratuitous ill-adapted ill-advised ill-assorted ill-chosen ill-considered ill-fitted ill-matched

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ill-seasoned ill-sorted ill-suited ill-timed immaterial impertinent

Noun(5 words)

ajaiaalien beingscompletely unrelated topicimmaterial thingimmaterial thing property

Adjective(4 words)

beside the markbeside the pointexpired immaterial

Adjective(9 words)

disconnected lessondisregardable extraneousfar off topicimmaterialimmaterial conceptimmaterial entityimmaterial matterimmaterial object

Strong matches (64)

Adjective(5 words)

impertinent irrelative moot nongermane nonpertinent

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intempestive intrusive irrelative late littlemal a proposmaladjusted malapropos meaningless minor minute misjoined mismatched mismated misplaced mistimed negligiblenihil ad remnonessentialnot at issue

Adjective(6 words)

inapplicablenoneducational talknoninformational noninstrumentalnot applicablenot pertinent

Noun(10 words)

matters in schoolmoot pointmore unconnectedmost immaterialnon sequiturnonissuenonworksheet relatednot connectednot made ofnot of consequence

Verb(1 words)

mooted

Determiner(1 words)

no demand

Adverb(1 words)

not applicable diagnoses

Related words (108)

not vitaloff baseoff the subjectout of characterout of jointout of keepingout of lineout of phaseout of placeout of proportionout of seasonout of timeout of tuneout-of-the-wayparenthetic parenthetical peripheral petit petty point

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Adjective(33 words)

off topic questionoff topic sectionpointless profitlessunconnected evidenceunconnected inputsunconnected topicsungrounded claimunhelpful dataunimportant claimunimportant personunnecessary unneeded unrelatedunrelated activityunrelated aimunrelated codeunrelated conceptunrelated contentsunrelated culture

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unrelated demonstrationunrelated detailunrelated fieldunrelated history projectunrelated ideasunrelated regionunrelated subjectunrelated to physicsunrelated topicunrelated topicsunrelated trialsunwanted valueless

Adjective(5 words)

off-topic orthogonal tangential unapt ungermane

Noun(14 words)

sidetracking straytangent issuetangential forceuneducational pond ecosystemunrelated contentunrelated incidentunrelated noteunrelated partsunrelated resultsunrelated tounrelated to icelandunrelated to the curriculumunrelated topics guide

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

2 entries

adjective descriptor

More specific

5 entries

extraneous immaterial inapplicable nonpertinent unrelated

Collocations

6 entries

irrelevant datairrelevant detailirrelevant evidenceirrelevant factorirrelevant questionirrelevant to

Inflections

2 entries

more irrelevantmost irrelevant

Derivations

3 entries

irrelevance irrelevancy irrelevantly

Antonyms

1 entries

relevant

similar

9 entries

digressive extraneous immaterial impertinent inapplicable moot orthogonal tangential unsuitable

Translations

56 translations across 29 languages.

Arabic

1 entries

عَرَضِيّ adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Basque

1 entries

desegoki adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Breton

1 entries

dizere adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Bulgarian

4 entries

ирелевантен adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
несъществен adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
неуместен adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
нецелесъобразен adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Catalan

1 entries

irrellevant adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

不切題的 /不切题的 adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
不相干的 adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Czech

1 entries

irelevantní adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Dutch

1 entries

irrelevant adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Esperanto

4 entries

malgrava adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
neatentinda adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
nekoncerna adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
nerilata adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Finnish

4 entries

epäolennainen adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
irrelevantti adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
merkityksetön adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
yhdentekevä adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

French

1 entries

non-pertinent adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Galician

1 entries

irrelevante adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Georgian

1 entries

არარელევანტური adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

German

2 entries

irrelevant adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
unwesentlich adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Greek

1 entries

άσχετος adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Hungarian

4 entries

irreleváns adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
lényegtelen adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
mellékes adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
érdektelen adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Italian

1 entries

irrilevante adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Japanese

1 entries

無関係 adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Macedonian

2 entries

несоо́дветен adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
неу́месен adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Manx

1 entries

neuventynagh adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Māori

1 entries

hape adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Polish

4 entries

nie à propos adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
nieistotny adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
niepowiązany adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
niezwiązany adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Portuguese

1 entries

irrelevante adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Romanian

3 entries

irelevant adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
neimportant adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
nerelevant adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Russian

4 entries

нева́жный adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
неподходя́щий adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
несуще́ственный adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
неуме́стный adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Slovak

2 entries

irelevantný adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
nepodstatný adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Spanish

1 entries

irrelevante adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Swedish

2 entries

irrelevant adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
ovidkommande adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Turkish

2 entries

alakasız adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)
ilgisiz adj (not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Your remark is irrelevant to our argument.

Source: tatoeba (70424)

Your suggestion seems irrelevant to our discussion here.

Source: tatoeba (70453)

My grandfather, being hard of hearing, often makes an irrelevant answer.

Source: tatoeba (251342)

In order to distract the others, we brought up this irrelevant issue as a red herring.

Source: tatoeba (274128)

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