Entry Word: extraneous

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 not being a vital part of or belonging to something <the architectʼs streamlined modern style shuns any sort of extraneous ornamentation> — see extrinsic
2 not having anything to do with the matter at hand <the professor would have covered all of the course material if she had refrained from her extraneous remarks on just about everything> — see irrelevant