extraneous
extraneous is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter. Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. Landor. -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abroad
- accident
- accidental
- adscititious
- adventitious
- alien
- alienage
- alienism
- apparent
- appearance
- ascititious
- beyond
- body
- contingent
- creole
- ego
- element
- emigrant
- exceptional
- exteriority
- external
- extrinsic
- extrinsical
- extrinsicality
- foreign
- foreigner
- fortuitous
- from
- greaser
- immigrant
- inadmissible
- incidental
- interloper
- intruder
- modal
- newcomer
- non
- nonessential
- objective
- objectiveness
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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