Definition of irrelevant
:not relevant :inapplicable
- that statement is irrelevant to your argument
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Examples of irrelevant in a Sentence
His comment is completely irrelevant.
irrelevant questions that merely disrupted the classroom lesson
Recent Examples of irrelevant from the Web
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Until the new CBA or until a change is made, right or wrong is irrelevant.
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Blue-collar types tend to be practical, with both feet on the ground, and many science topics, especially astronomy and space, can seem irrelevant to their lives.
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The toggling between unhinged desperation and bare-knuckle boogie starts to make the gap between those poles irrelevant, and each extreme ends up as a different manifestation of the same rebellious spirit.
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In a normal civil case, these kinds of irrelevant and burdensome discovery requests are merely annoying.
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The FABBS letter also predicts that including a wider range of studies on clinicaltrials.gov, which many patients use to find trials that are seeking participants, will confuse the public by clogging the database with irrelevant studies.
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But for an organized person, the location is irrelevant.
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The issue picks at the religion’s most sensitive scabs: Fears of assimilation mix with anxiety that Judaism is becoming irrelevant.
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At the same time, the absence of Mr. Trump from Tuesday’s I.O.C. meeting will become irrelevant if Paris and Los Angeles work out an arrangement on the hosting schedule.
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First Known Use of irrelevant
1786
irrelevant Synonyms
Synonyms
extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, irrelative, beside the point, neither here nor thereAntonyms
applicable, apposite, apropos, germane, material, pertinent, pointed, relative, relevantRelated Words
incidental, peripheral, tangent, tangential; dead, moot; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant; empty, inane, meaningless, pointless, senseless, useless; inappropriate, inapt, unsuitableNear Antonyms
important, meaningful, significant; sensible, useful; appropriate, apt, fit, suitableIRRELEVANT Defined for English Language Learners
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Law Dictionary
legal Definition of irrelevant
:not relevant :not applicable or pertinent
- irrelevant allegations
- irrelevant evidence
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irrelevantly
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