irrelevant

C1 Topic:Describing Qualities
US /ɪˈɹɛl.ə.vənt/
adj Freq #7563

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Not connected with or important to the subject being discussed.

    His comments were completely irrelevant to the discussion.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · not connected with or... unrelated
More immaterialimpertinentirrelativemootnongermanenonpertinentoff-topicorthogonalotiosetangentialunaptungermane
Opposites
foreignpertinentrelevant
Word family
Forms irrelevantly
Derived forms irrelephantirrelevanceirrelevancyirrelevantly

Etymology

From ir- + relevant.

Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives
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