Extraneous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTRANEOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• not forming an essential or vital part
• irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with
• of external origin
• separate from the object to which it is attached
• Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.
• not pertinent to the matter under consideration
• not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• existing on or coming from the outside

Words related to EXTRANEOUS

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Words that contain EXTRANEOUS

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How to use EXTRANEOUS in a sentence

• The incident of the miracle-worker is omitted by Matthew, and then comes the insertion of a mass of extraneous matter by Luke.
• He did not boast openly, but he introduced extraneous details important in themselves.
• It was evident, however, that she was a little lady, though she wore a badly made frock, and her hat sat like a hard, extraneous Bath bun on the top of her neat head.
• Extraneous circumstances are honour, money, relationship, family, friends, country, power, and other things which are understood to be of a similar kind.
• You may search in vain through even her later correspondence with Miss Nussey for any more than perfunctory and extraneous allusions to her works.
• Then before College hours, before I take up any extraneous work, I look through my own lectures to see that I am ready for them.
• You cannot fit them into the machine, you must make them extraneous to it.
• Hence Brahman also, although intelligent, is assumed to require no extraneous means.
• Tylor well puts it, that clay alone or with some mixture of sand is capable of being used without any extraneous support for the manufacture of drinking and cooking vessels.
• And this will be the proof that nationalism, so-called, is merely an extraneous thing that has no part in pure art.
• The facts are self-evident, and follow from principles, without involving any extraneous acquaintance with life or literature, and no deadening memory work is required.
• Diana looked into every corner, examined every fireplace, attempted every window, but in no place could she find any extraneous object likely to afford a clue to the crime.
• He sat down again and closed his eyes in order better to study this problem without outside and extraneous matters interfering.
• Cobden, who complained that extraneous matter had been introduced into the discussion to a greater extent than had ever been introduced previously into any corn-law debate.
• They are brief, compact, written in excellent English, and precisely fit the case before him without any extraneous or superfluous matter.
• That were a poor soul that could succumb so easily to extraneous influences.
• In 1902, an annual grant of L185,000 was diverted from Irish primary education and used for quite extraneous purposes.
• He had got hold of this dazzling idea of the extraneous development of life, and he set himself to prove it.
• My senses, thoughts, consciousness, grew horribly confused, as if some powerful, extraneous will, were seizing upon the functions of my brain.
• Whenever there is a form associated with consciousness, it is an extraneous illusory imposition on the pure consciousness.
• The petals of the rose being carefully picked so as to leave no extraneous parts, should be thrown into the boiler of the still with a little water.
• An extraneous incident altered the whole current of my life.
• We need no national banks or other extraneous institutions planted around the Government to control or strengthen it in opposition to the will of its authors.
• Let there be no distraction, no extraneous suggestion, to interfere with the impression intended by the poet.
• He has climbed to his present eminence without the extraneous aids of wealth and family influence.
• Be sure that your strongest thinkers speak and that the weaker forbear, and that extraneous matters, so far as possible, are let alone.
• Our wealth is not an extraneous thing that can be readily added or taken away.

Similar words containing TRANEOU without suffix s and without prefix ex

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