Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Unrelated to the matter being considered.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not relevant; not having relation; not applicable or pertinent.
- In law. having no legitimate bearing on the real question. See immaterial, incompetent, relevant.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
Examples
“The best way to fight off these Smartbook folks is to make the term irrelevant, and we can coin a better term at the same time.”
“Jon Perlman , a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, suspended his AdWords account last year after he found out he was charged for what he called irrelevant search terms such as "oliva newton john photo" and "tattoo removal studio city.”
“And the U.N., which we called irrelevant at the time, they're not there to help us.”
“They were involved in irrelevant issues, as always.”
Global Voices in English » Paraguay: As the H1N1 Virus Spreads
“What makes this conversation sadly irrelevant is that the true part of that clip is that consumers are buying for all the wrong reasons.”
Piercing robo-dialogue about sales in the wine trade | Dr Vino's wine blog
“While I do not think that Kling's position that Type M arguments are irrelevant is sound, I think if you take that position, then this post is irrelevant.”
Envy and Resentment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Whether any universally omniscient entity exists or not is, at least for now anyway, irrelevant from a scientific perspective, because it can be neither proven nor disproven experimentally.”
“The GOP needs to get some INTELLIGENT folks to come up with some solutions or they will remain irrelevant to the process.”
“If organizations like the SCLC continue with their "some discrimination is acceptable" mentality then they will remain irrelevant as the world passes them.”
SCLC's fight for civil rights doesn't include Gay Americans (Blog for Democracy)
“An executive should have some independence, but a presidency that treats the people as irrelevant is not democratic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘irrelevant’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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JURI - courtroom speak
Legal glossary with special focus on courtroom vocabulary
accused, acquittal, ADA, adjournment, adjudication, affidavit, affirmed, aggravated range, aggravating factors, allegation, alleged, answer and 794 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 599 more... -
dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2465 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3099 more... -
Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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know-it-all
eunuch, couvade, ecclesiastes, enigma, inevitable, crucible, genteel, bedlam, baculum, scapulimancy, atrophy, smut and 170 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 1008 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for irrelevant.
oroboros The irrevelant is the lifeblood of life. Irrelevancy is the context of everything relevant. The irrelevant is the space of permission. If nothing were irrelevant, what then?: everything inextricably constricted, conjoined, contraposed abd conflated. See three. Jan 22, 2007