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irrelevant definition

ir·rel·evant (i rel′ə vənt)

adjective

not relevant; not pertinent; not to the point; not relating to the subject

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law irrelevant definition - legal

irrelevant Synonyms

irrelevant

modif.

inapplicable, unrelated, extraneous, impertinent, off the topic, inappropriate, inconsequent, inconsequential, immaterial, unconnected, inapropros, not germane, beside the point, off the point, foreign, beside the question, out of order, out of place, not to the purpose, pointless, trivial, not connected with, not pertaining to, without reference to, out of the way, remote, tangential, neither here nor there*; see also trivial, unnecessary.


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irrelevant Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • render: However, by 1920, the seismic upheavals resulting from WWI created further changes that rendered these promises irrelevant.

Modifies a noun

  • material: Now we had no irrelevant materials for the English class.

Modifying Another Word

  • largely: The Irish parliament, he felt, was largely irrelevant to the needs of the country.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: The tearing down of the statue now seems almost irrelevant to the crisis in Iraq we're now seeing.

Preposition: in

  • context: So far, wind power has been seen as pretty much irrelevant in urban contexts.

Preposition: for

  • purpose: The result against the ungraded player is irrelevant for the purposes of grading calculations.
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