Crossword clues for extraneous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extraneous \Ex*tra"ne*ous\, a. [L. extraneus, from extra. See Extra-, Strange.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign 2 Not essential or intrinsic
WordNet
adj. not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" [syn: immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal]
not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk" [syn: foreign]
coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups" [syn: external, outside]
Usage examples of "extraneous".
Instead, he very methodically removed all the extraneous paperwork from his desk and placed it neatly on his bunk.
There are times in existence when things must be done for the doing of them, without extraneous considerations.
Something I thought of as I morosely drove to the Indizalian Embassy to meet with Ambassador Hobar Aramilo was that, again, I was involved in extraneous and pointless pursuit: my job.
The fat man who had been following us was another extraneous character.
TAKE long to dispose of the extraneous weapons, but John begrudged every second.
The drunken miller, who had been good for absolutely nothing at all, she managed, through her own manly pulling of his topknot every day, without any extraneous remedies, to turn not into a man but into pure gold.
Most of all, having trouble focusing on discussion: Single unanswered question kept intruding, clamoring for answer, derailing extraneous thoughts.
Everything extraneous to mission ripped out: Air, food, water storage cut down to irreducible minimum.
Joel always talks emotionlessly about the actual killings, he does display emotion when conveying extraneous bits of information related to the murder itself, more often than not when they could easily have resulted in his capture.
The forest was eerily quiet, what with the heaviness of the air absorbing extraneous sounds.
Sexfilter out the extraneous surroundings, noises, even the nature of the environment.
No trace of a black pigment of any sort was discovered, the drop of acid which had completely extracted a letter, appearing of an uniform pale ferrugineous color, without an atom of black powder, or other extraneous matter, floating in it.
She tuned the brainworm as low as she could, barely a ghost of the usual sensations, but even so, her skin crawled and tingled, itchy with extraneous sensations bleeding in from the healing incision, and she logged off almost at once, swearing to herself.
The sadness, the plangency of this remark was echoed in the music itself, the gawwali model of devotional rhythms and improvisations, over a thousand years old, growing louder now as the funeral cortege came down the avenue, which had been cleared of extraneous traffic and parked cars.
Despite all his ungraciousness, it seemed to me that he was a man of intelligence and could understand a great deal, though he had little interest in extraneous things.