Synonyms of irrelevant

irrelevant

adjective

i-ˈre-lə-vənt 

as in meaningless

not having anything to do with the matter at hand

irrelevant questions that merely disrupted the classroom lesson

Synonyms & Similar Words

• meaningless
• immaterial
• inapplicable
• extraneous
• useless
• inappropriate
• impertinent
• beside the point
• inapposite
• irrelative
• unimportant
• peripheral
• unsuitable
• tangential
• neither here nor there
• moot
• incidental
• insignificant
• tangent
• inconsequential
• pointless
• dead
• empty
• inane
• senseless
• inapt

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• relevant
• relative
• pertinent
• important
• applicable
• significant
• meaningful
• pointed
• material
• useful
• germane
• apposite
• appropriate
• apropos
• sensible
• suitable
• apt
• fit

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of irrelevant

What outrages Marylanders is that this diabolical plan excludes the Preakness, devaluing it and implying the Triple Crown is irrelevant, if not dead. — Stephen J. K. Walters, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2026

And further back than that—the child my mother still describes, devouring books one after another, genre irrelevant. — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026

When teens and 20-somethings became the earliest adopters of Snapchat and then TikTok, titles aimed at those demographics had to embrace them or risk being written off as irrelevant by a generation that is more inclined to watch YouTube anyway. — Judy Berman, Time, 4 Aug. 2026

The migrants were never going to be able to reach the mainland EU, but that fact was irrelevant to hard-right, anti-migrant politicians around the world who portrayed the incident in apocalyptic terms. — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026