as in meaningless
not having anything to do with the matter at hand
irrelevant questions that merely disrupted the classroom lesson
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Recent Examples of irrelevant
Whether Dončić would’ve been the same quality of fitness model had he not been traded is sort of irrelevant.
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Dan Woike, New York Times, 29 July 2025
And any national security strategy that fails to grapple with the potentially transformative effects of AGI will become irrelevant.
—Matan Chorev, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2025
The idea of four years on a residential campus may feel either inaccessible or irrelevant.
—Catherine Wehlburg, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Its 194 mph top speed and ability to cover zero to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds are irrelevant on congested Cañon Drive, but the soundtrack of the model’s 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 adds gravitas to the arrival at our breakfast destination.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 24 July 2025
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Dan Woike, New York Times, 29 July 2025
And any national security strategy that fails to grapple with the potentially transformative effects of AGI will become irrelevant.
—Matan Chorev, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2025
The idea of four years on a residential campus may feel either inaccessible or irrelevant.
—Catherine Wehlburg, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Its 194 mph top speed and ability to cover zero to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds are irrelevant on congested Cañon Drive, but the soundtrack of the model’s 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 adds gravitas to the arrival at our breakfast destination.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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Without fairness, the test (and winning) becomes meaningless—and for the rest of us, a huge bummer.—
Lindsey Witmer Collins,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The protester specifically said a letter Casten signed that day along with more than 90 other House Democrats, demanding an investigation into starvation reports in Gaza, was meaningless.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Whether this has anything to do with eventually arriving at AGI and ASI is somewhat immaterial.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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For me, this was where everything was tipping: the point at which the material brain created immaterial thoughts and images, and the same point reversed, when the computer turned abstract numbers into concrete actions.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In 2023, the Supreme Court declared the bill inapplicable.—
Javier Bastardo,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Thus, the commercial speech exclusion was inapplicable, the trial court had erred on that point, and the expressions of the Bucher Defendants were within the scope of the UPEPA's protections.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Powell quickly read the document and then dismissed it as containing an extraneous line item.—
Tobias Burns,
The Hill,
30 July 2025
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Without the extraneous nuisance of hair, his head felt lighter, as if a heavy burden of worry had been lifted.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Infrastructure is useless without operators who can manage it.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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The deals typically provide revenue for the host community while enabling the solar industry to cover essentially useless land with solar panels rather than taking out-of-service farmland, open fields or similar space.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Avoid anything offensive, violent or inappropriate.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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In the video, Adams accuses the man of being inappropriate with a minor on Grindr, a LGBTQ+ dating and social networking app where the minimum age to make an account is 18.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Questions about the overheating of the American economy were brushed aside as impertinent.—
Arancha González Laya,
Foreign Affairs,
12 May 2025
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Telling you of her plan to do so is impertinent and picking a fight.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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That principle is inapposite when a limited liability company has only one member.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Supreme Court indeed raised Flood and explained the cases were, at best, inapposite.—
Marc Edelman,
Forbes,
21 June 2021
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“Irrelevant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevant. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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