extraneous

Modifying Another Word

• not: Such an about-face into timelessness is not extraneous to Hegel's dialectics and philosophy of history.
• largely: They are largely extraneous to the main transaction, and carry out a mechanical function.
• much: The crowd's not entirely silent, but there's not too much extraneous talking.
• wholly: Obviously the wholly extraneous issue of radicalism and opposition to the war entered into the deliberation of the jury.
• somewhat: Naturalization may have appeared to many as expensive, complex and somewhat extraneous to their daily existence.
• totally: These are totally extraneous from that which is the norm in the rest of the decoration.

Modifies a noun

• noise: A fan in each study booth, to be used by students to block out extraneous noise.
• stimulus: With the extraneous stimuli out of the way, the individual is better able to attend to the important stimuli.
• variable: My feeling is that there are too many extraneous variables for the findings of either to be applied rigidly across the board.
• influence: It was then possible to undertake an analysis that would be free from major extraneous influence which might swamp a more fine grained analysis.
• factor: All seem to make values depend on extraneous factors.
• matter: Then each extraneous matter laid aside, By its own merit be our drama tried.

Used with adjective complement

seem: Thus the IESR data model is a simplification of the RSLPCD model, omitting details that seemed extraneous.