adj
extraneous
ehk-STRAY-nee-uhs
adj
1
Not relevant or necessary to the matter at hand; irrelevant.
"The editor cut several extraneous details that slowed the story down."
"Please ignore the extraneous notes at the bottom of the report — they don't apply here."
How to Use Extraneous
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishSomething unnecessary or off-topic that doesn't belong to the main point.
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Common pairings
extraneous detail
extraneous information
extraneous noise
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Etymology
From Latin extrāneus, "external, foreign, from outside" — the same root that gives us "strange" and "estrange."