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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. extraneous: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  2. extraneous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. extraneous: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. extraneous: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. extraneous: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. extraneous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. extraneous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. extraneous: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Extraneous, extraneous: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. extraneous: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. extraneous: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. extraneous: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Extraneous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. extraneous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. extraneous: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. Extraneous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. extraneous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. extraneous: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. extraneous: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. extraneous: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  21. extraneous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  22. extraneous: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  23. extraneous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extraneous: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Extraneous: MedFriendly Glossary [home, info]
  2. extraneous: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. extraneous: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extraneous: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (extraneous)

adjective:  not essential ("The ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play")
adjective:  not pertinent to the matter under consideration ("An issue extraneous to the debate")
adjective:  not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source ("Water free of extraneous matter")
adjective:  coming from the outside ("Extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph")

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Phrases that include extraneous:   extraneous cognitive load, extraneous tissue

Words similar to extraneous:   external, extraneously, extraneousness, foreign, immaterial, impertinent, outside, more...


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