irrelevant

adjective

ir·rel·e·vant | \ i-ˈre-lə-vənt

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

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The consequences can range from irrelevant to fatal. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "What is atrial fibrillation, and why is your watch telling you about it?," 26 Sep. 2018 Yet McDougal’s and Daniels’s stories are not irrelevant. — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, "Do Trump's alleged affairs even matter?," 17 Feb. 2018 Pointing out that this is Black History Month isn’t irrelevant, as many critics claimed, some even calling Davis racist. — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, "Appreciate Shani Davis for his complexity and authenticity — not his controversy," 12 Feb. 2018 Over the past year, media from The Wall Street Journal to PBS have hailed technology schools and programs as harbingers of a new economy and reformers of a postsecondary education system that’s become over-priced, over-valued, and often irrelevant. — Chuck Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "The State of American Trade Schools," 13 Mar. 2019 The evolving geopolitical climate, including the rise of the Chinese Navy, has made the LCS class largely irrelevant. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Two Years After Breakdown, This Littoral Combat Ship is Back in the Fleet," 18 Dec. 2018 The delicacy of these narratives may have clashed with the gritty realism of the 1970s and the muscular posh of the 1980s, but that was irrelevant to Redford. — Marley Marius, Vogue, "An Ode to Robert Redford, on What May Be His Retirement From Acting," 25 Sep. 2018 Oh, and of course, there are the actual artists, like Piers (John Malkovich) and Damrish (Daveed Diggs), who are forced to watch their careers become irrelevant at the promise of a hot new star. — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, "Netflix's Velvet Buzzsaw Shouldn't Work—But It (Mostly) Does," 3 Feb. 2019 With the news that Microsoft is moving to the Chromium rendering engine for Edge, all of these comparisons and notifications are about to become irrelevant. — Tom Warren, The Verge, "Google’s Chrome browser will get better because of Microsoft," 6 Dec. 2018

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