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
To us, the budget is somewhat irrelevant.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Rather than performing valuable tasks expertly, AI makes experts irrelevant.
—David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
Which is why Mahomes played all of 48 seconds in the first two irrelevant games as Reid deviated from his customary inclination to play him most in the second-to-last rehearsal.
—Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2025
Yelich noted the random nature of postseason baseball and said the Brewers’ playoff history is pretty irrelevant because there’s so much turnover from year to year.
—Steve Megargee, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for irrelevant
Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Rather than performing valuable tasks expertly, AI makes experts irrelevant.
—David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
Which is why Mahomes played all of 48 seconds in the first two irrelevant games as Reid deviated from his customary inclination to play him most in the second-to-last rehearsal.
—Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2025
Yelich noted the random nature of postseason baseball and said the Brewers’ playoff history is pretty irrelevant because there’s so much turnover from year to year.
—Steve Megargee, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for irrelevant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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The Russo-Ukrainian war, and the Israel-Iran conflict have both shown that sophistication alone is meaningless if delivered in teaspoon doses.—
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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My worry is that AI use becomes ubiquitous enough that the label becomes meaningless—like saying a house was built with a pneumatic brad nailer versus a hammer.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The justifications for the slaughter which started out so white hot after October 7th have cooled now, become more immaterial and incoherent.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Relative to Rhode Island’s annual budget of nearly $14 billion, this increase in tax collections represents an immaterial impact.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 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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The recent economic downturn has forced consumers to cut extraneous costs like adult content subscriptions.—
Jasmine Mithani,
Them.,
3 Sep. 2025
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Maybe that’s why, compared with some other kinds of nitpickers, pop critics can seem especially extraneous.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This method is a significant departure from traditional chemical recycling techniques like pyrolysis, which operate at lower temperatures (450–600°C) and produce over a hundred different by-products, many of which are useless.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Economists usually look at new jobs, but immigration is now very low, making that figure useless as a measure of how the economy is doing.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Production on the star's prior film, Being Mortal, was suspended by Searchlight Pictures in 2022 after a staffer filed a complaint against actor Bill Murray, alleging inappropriate behavior.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep. 2025
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While Roblox has filters and moderation, kids can still be exposed to inappropriate language, scams, or unsafe conversations.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
5 Sep. 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 9 Sep. 2025.
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