extraneous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign.
Not essential or intrinsic.

/ɛkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs/ /ɪkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs/ en-us-extraneous.ogg /ekˈstɹæɪ.ni.əs/ en-au-extraneous.ogg

extraneous

From Latin extrāneus (“from without, strange”). Doublet of strange. Cognate with estrange (verb), Spanish extraño.

alien foreign intrusive extra additional superfluous

intraneous

extraneously extraneousness extraneous variable nonextraneous unextraneous

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