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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Not constituting a vital element or part.
  2. adj. Inessential or unrelated to the topic or matter at hand; irrelevant. See Synonyms at irrelevant.
  3. adj. Coming from the outside: extraneous interference.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not belonging or proper to a thing; not intrinsic or essential, though attached; foreign: as, to separate gold from extraneous matter; extraneous ornaments or observances.
  2. Synonyms See exterior.
  3. In music, not belonging to a standard scale or key; chromatic.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not pertinent to the matter under consideration
  2. adj. coming from the outside
  3. adj. not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
  4. adj. not essential

Etymologies

  1. From Latin extrāneus ("from without, strange") (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin extrāneus, from extrā, outside; see extra-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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