extraneous
adjective
[ ɪkˈstreɪnɪəs ]
• irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
• "one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material"
Similar:
irrelevant,
immaterial,
beside the point,
not to the point,
neither here nor there,
nothing to do with it,
not pertinent,
not germane,
not to the purpose,
off the subject,
unrelated,
unconnected,
inapposite,
inappropriate,
inapplicable,
inconsequential,
incidental,
pointless,
out of place,
wide of the mark,
peripheral,
tangential,
• of external origin.
• "when the transmitter pack is turned off no extraneous noise is heard"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin extraneus + -ous.
