EXTRANEOUSLY Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

extraneously

adverb

Definition of extraneously

as in irrelevantly

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Relevance

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Adverb

Grandma, irrelevantly but convincingly, spoke of wars, blizzards and trekking barefoot to school.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

Definition of irrelevantly

Adverb

But the legal system’s binary standard—sane and guilty, or insane and not—fits imperfectly with human intuitions about culpability in tragedies like the Clancys’.

— Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
What kept her was the counselor who showed up imperfectly but consistently, who was unfinished and stayed anyway.

— Laide Alexander, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of imperfectly

Adverb

But Jameson is hardly the first family pet to senselessly perish at the hands of law enforcement officers who resort to deadly force far too quickly.

— Vanessa Shakib, Oc Register, 23 July 2026
All the bad and all the good are gone, senselessly ripped away from them.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026

Definition of senselessly

Adverb

Without the federal government as a consistent partner, local efforts are inadequately supported.

— Monitor Reader, Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2026
Indian troops were deployed to thwart Chinese advances but were reportedly inadequately supplied, underprepared, and overwhelmed.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026

Definition of inadequately

Adverb

The university determined that Verster was insufficiently transparent because he had been paid through his own company for studies that cited his university affiliation.

— Ashley Okwuosa, STAT, 30 July 2026
Raman has critiqued Inside Safe as too costly and insufficiently transparent.

— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026

Definition of insufficiently

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