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
Because really, what the adoption is and what other people do is somewhat irrelevant.
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Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Factionalism, doctrine, ground rules, justifications are, in Anderson’s film, irrelevant, meaning that French 75’s actions take place in an intellectual void.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
If the scene has cars, traffic lights and trees, the model might focus too much on irrelevant details such as the motion of the leaves.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Thapar wrote that concern is irrelevant for purposes of an injunction that allowed Pavia to play in fall 2025.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Factionalism, doctrine, ground rules, justifications are, in Anderson’s film, irrelevant, meaning that French 75’s actions take place in an intellectual void.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
If the scene has cars, traffic lights and trees, the model might focus too much on irrelevant details such as the motion of the leaves.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Thapar wrote that concern is irrelevant for purposes of an injunction that allowed Pavia to play in fall 2025.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for irrelevant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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Mainstream rap nowadays is suffocating from meaningless rivalries, subliminal shots for stans to decode and misinterpret, and redundant talk of who’s really in the streets and who’s snitching.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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What affected me most in Lahiri’s story was the sense of time passing, the way our obsessions seem meaningless in the aftermath of tragic events (or, rather, from the larger vantage point of a life).—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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How and when, exactly, that divorce occurs is immaterial; there’s no coming back from this, and Penn State and Franklin both need something new.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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Hence, there is no immortal or immaterial soul, no afterlife, all is explained by the movements of matter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 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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Here are the kicking motion rules, which the NHL deemed inapplicable given their determination that Hellebuyck propelled the puck into his own net.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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Our commerce writer Julia Harrison writes that her Moccamaster One Cup is a delight, principally because of its simplicity as a drip coffee maker—free of extraneous frothers or digital interfaces or timers.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2025
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If someone is furloughed, the thinking goes, they could more easily be seen as extraneous, giving the Administration an easier path to arguing they aren’t needed at all.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Miles are useless for trying to define how enormous our galaxy is.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
12 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement One Battle After Another, Eddington, and The Mastermind all comedically register white men as useless political collaborators.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And if the gifts this year are inappropriate, the fault will rest solely with him.—
Mark Mondier,
Arkansas Online,
19 Oct. 2025
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After Ansari set Being Mortal as his directorial debut in February 2022, also set to star alongside Murray, Deadline reported exclusively that April that Searchlight Pictures had suspended production following allegations of inappropriate behavior against Murray.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
18 Oct. 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 Oct. 2025.
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