irrelevant

adjective

ir·​rel·​e·​vant i-ˈre-lə-vənt 

: not relevant : inapplicable

that statement is irrelevant to your argument

irrelevantly adverb

Synonyms of irrelevant

• meaningless
• immaterial
• inapplicable
• extraneous
• useless
• inappropriate
• impertinent
• beside the point
• inapposite
• irrelative

Examples of irrelevant in a Sentence

His comment is completely irrelevant.

irrelevant questions that merely disrupted the classroom lesson

Recent Examples on the Web

The Fed under former Chair Jerome Powell considered information about the money supply to be essentially irrelevant to inflation, but Warsh disagrees. — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 15 July 2026

Of course such internal gossip is largely irrelevant to the business of CNN. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

The idea is to learn the structure that matters for prediction and planning without spending huge amounts of compute modeling irrelevant visual detail. — ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

Paramount had argued that the requests were irrelevant to the antitrust issues the state is investigating. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1786, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for irrelevant

• relevant

Kids Definition

irrelevant

adjective

ir·​rel·​e·​vant (ˈ)ir-ˈ(r)el-ə-vənt 

: not relevant : not applicable or pertinent

the evidence presented was judged irrelevant to the case

irrelevance

-vən(t)s

noun

or irrelevancy

-vən-sē

irrelevantly adverb

Legal Definition

irrelevant

adjective

ir·​rel·​e·​vant ir-ˈre-lə-vənt 

: not relevant : not applicable or pertinent

irrelevant allegations

irrelevant evidence

compare immaterial

irrelevantly adverb