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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
irrelevant
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Disgraceful, if true; but almost irrelevant.
▪ The gay aspects of the story are almost irrelevant.
▪ Whether the tape said to be in the possession of a national newspaper is genuine or not seemed last night almost irrelevant.
▪ To me, the top Teamster officers seem disconnected from the Teamsters, almost irrelevant to it.
▪ In a world where guns are readily available, decommissioning is almost irrelevant, having only a symbolic meaning.
▪ In any event, according to Bethe, the test had become almost irrelevant by that time.
▪ The fact that we create the artwork electronically is almost irrelevant - it's the words that really count.
▪ But his part in the proceedings had been made almost irrelevant.
as
▪ The civil service and institutions based on this style see feeling as irrelevant in work performance.
▪ For years, I tried to fathom the mentality that simply waves off concern about the cost of regulations as irrelevant.
▪ Today, the argument goes, old-fashioned barriers separating countries, and even continents, are as irrelevant as the Berlin Wall.
▪ Because of this statistics are often dismissed as irrelevant or to be left to specialists.
▪ The gender of a subject is treated as irrelevant, unless it is under specific investigation.
▪ It retreats into the ghetto and dismisses the work of the historian as irrelevant to its needs.
▪ Yet one would hesitate to describe these lines as irrelevant.
▪ Scientists for their part have tended to consider the layman's admiration as their right and the real world as irrelevant.
completely
▪ What puzzles a philosopher and taxes his mind to distraction may look completely irrelevant or quite obvious to a businessman.
▪ U., studying some arcane subject that turned out to be completely irrelevant.
▪ Trust me to find the completely irrelevant question.
▪ Is it a completely irrelevant coincidence that almost every person who makes large sums of money dresses up when they do business?
▪ Psychology has recently gained the respectability it should always have had with respect to pain, for two completely irrelevant reasons.
▪ The pages of the draft speech lay beside him, unattended, unimproved, and now completely irrelevant.
▪ His political views, however, were presumably not completely irrelevant.
▪ He's completely irrelevant to my life, and he always will be.
increasingly
▪ The Giral government, consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans, was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation.
▪ But that is an increasingly irrelevant justification for present attitudes.
▪ Blocs are being seen as increasingly irrelevant today largely because the global capitalist system is perceived as increasingly salient.
▪ Parliament and party became increasingly irrelevant, and trade unions and employers' associations came into positions of political prominence.
▪ The revolutionary intelligentsia seemed doomed to doctrinaire squabbles over increasingly irrelevant issues.
▪ Not only will human goodness be unable to operate effectively on such a system: it will become increasingly irrelevant to it.
largely
▪ The identity of the genitor in such cases is largely irrelevant.
▪ The comfort, or lack of it, at training camp is largely irrelevant.
▪ Where obligation is the key, policy is largely irrelevant.
▪ The precise timing of this process is largely irrelevant.
▪ By the late 1980s, debates surrounding the rate question became largely irrelevant.
▪ If films have little peripheral information in them then it may be that memory for such information is largely irrelevant.
▪ From the child's viewpoint arguments over management are largely irrelevant.
▪ Men are now recruited into a national labour pool and their home base is largely irrelevant to where they take ships.
quite
▪ And compared with so self-evident a need, the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant.
▪ A testimony may be fascinating but at the same time quite irrelevant to the basic questions touching on faith and doubt.
▪ The fact that it was much pleasanter doing things for John was really quite irrelevant.
▪ The thrust and strain which has dominated these twenty-five years now seems quite irrelevant.
totally
▪ Think what a clutter there would be if your mind were filled with sights which were totally irrelevant to you!
▪ As l have just remarked, the particular physical embodiment of an algorithm is something totally irrelevant.
▪ Political and nationalistic considerations are totally irrelevant.
▪ The fact that Niall Grant was a very attractive man was totally irrelevant.
▪ It was pathetically inadequate for the poor and totally irrelevant for everyone else.
▪ Whether or not that helps to fill church pews is totally irrelevant.
▪ They have accorded it blind respect while considering it totally irrelevant to the real world.
■ NOUN
consideration
▪ This, the court said, was an irrelevant consideration which rendered his decision unlawful.
▪ This does not mean, however, that the effects of competition are always an irrelevant consideration.
▪ That it assaults the reputation of one outside the House is an incidental and irrelevant consideration.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "But I didn't know it was illegal to park here.'' "That's completely irrelevant.''
▪ Chris continued to annoy her with questions on totally irrelevant subjects.
▪ To many young people, the church seems outdated and irrelevant to modern times.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is irrelevant to the Purchaser whether or not the Vendors know the warranties are right or wrong so long as they accept the risk.
▪ Most Contemporaries will not make the transition; they will merely become dated and irrelevant and will eventually go out of print.
▪ Reinforced concrete is an example, and is not as irrelevant to motorised transport as you might think.
▪ That the environment is not animate enough to want to communicate with us is irrelevant.
▪ The proposals in this Gracious Speech are either irrelevant or positively damaging to the raising of school standards.
▪ This is not to say that power in organizations has become so diffuse and fleeting that it is irrelevant.
▪ What is striking about these undoubtedly well-meaning suggestions is how irrelevant most are to the actual crisis of transmission.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
irrelevant

1680s, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + relevant. Related: Irrelevantly.

Wiktionary
irrelevant

a. Not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected.

WordNet
irrelevant

adj. having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue; "an irrelevant comment"; "irrelevant allegations" [ant: relevant]

Wikipedia
Irrelevant (album)

Irrelevant is the second album by the Canadian hard rock band Slik Toxik. The album was released in 1994. "Twenty Something" and "Dive" were released as singles. The album was recorded at Toronto Studio Phase One.

Usage examples of "irrelevant".

It seemed to him now that Adelaide was part of a life that had become remote and irrelevant.

In light of everything Aisling told him last night, his career was irrelevant.

Dionysia knew Ianthe Apeiron, and she did not ask his because it was irrelevant.

To us, the things that the Atlantans do- dressing up in these kinds of clothes, spending years and years in school-are irrelevant.

So, that evening I sat next to Cris and Angela Bellhanger and listened to the opera which informs us that our personalities are irrelevant, and indeed interchangeable, that one lover is really quite as good as another, that all women do it and it all comes to the same thing in the end.

He remembered the wool-padding that had protected the two breaches and wondered at a mind that could notice such irrelevant things at the point of a death.

Namely, a proposition about a particular factor in nature can neither be expressed to others nor retained for repeated consideration without the aid of auxiliary complexes which are irrelevant to it.

It might be somewhat more costly in financial terms, but since the reconstruction of Iraq is expected to dwarf the costs of any military campaign and we would have to pay for that regardless of how we handled the overthrow, these costs too are mostly irrelevant.

Jamie and Tom came in, rhythmical drive and elegant taste, followed by Rose, late as usual, missing the beat as usual, but creating harmonies and countermelodies that made the song irrelevant, it was music, and it was her and it was us, we fell into sync and the verse began to sing us right on cue.

This being my humble and even highly irrelevant contribution to the common team-work, it is obvious that it could not be done at the same time as a close following of the varying shades of thought in the Distributist debates.

Any difference not related to one of these elements will be considered irrelevant.

It is as irrelevant as the remote castle to the flower or the Hebridean coast to the candle.

London, so individual and overwhelming, is to him delightfully musty, a deep cellar of the Museum full of damp books and mice: the sea-girt imperial grandeur, so splendidly indifferent to any aesthetic consideration, is orgulously irrelevant to the present purpose.

Up from Eden, he misses the first three essential points and instead argues about dates, an argument that, where it is not simply wrong, is irrelevant, because I had already readjusted them in Eye to eye and Transformations.

Rainmaking spoke against Theamh--and for this scheme, at least, Rainmaking is irrelevant.