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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Extraneous \Ex*tra"ne*ous\, a. [L. extraneus, from extra. See
     Extra-, Strange.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment.
                                                    --Landor.
     -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Extraneous \Ex*tra"ne*ous\, a. [L. extraneus, from extra. See
     Extra-, Strange.]
     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.
  
           Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment.
                                                    --Landor.
     -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  extraneous
       adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue
              extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial";
              "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally
              coming to the point" [syn: immaterial, impertinent,
               orthogonal]
       2: not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and
          somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
       3: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced
          from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter";
          "foreign particles in milk" [syn: foreign]
       4: coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera
          spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous
          income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups" [syn: external,
           outside]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  extraneous
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 ξένος
     2 άσχετος (με το θέμα), εκτός θέματος
     3 εξωτερικός, εξωγενής
     4 περιττός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

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

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

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

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

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

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

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

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  extraneous
     Engelska a.
     främmande, ovidkommande, yttre

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/
  غريب

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  extraneous //ekˈstɹæɪ.ni.əs// //ɛkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs// //ɪkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs// 
  въ́ншен, чужд
  not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/ 
  zevní

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/ 
  irelevantní

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/
  Fremd… [chem.]

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/
  äußere, äußerer äußeres , von außen

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/
  fremd, sachfremd, mit der Sache nichts zu tun habend 
        "be extraneous to the case"  - mit dem Fall nichts zu tun haben
           Note: to the issue

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/
  körperfremd 

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  extraneous //ekˈstɹæɪ.ni.əs// //ɛkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs// //ɪkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs// 
  asiaankuulumaton
  not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/ 
  1. ऊपरी
        "An issue extraneous to the debate"
        "The ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play."
        "Water free of extraneous matter"
  2. बाहरी
        "Extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/
  dalek, stran, tuđ

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/
  1. tárgyhoz nem tartozó
  2. idegen
  3. külsô

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  extraneous /ɪkˈstreɪnɪəs/ 
    poboczny

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  extraneous //ekˈstɹæɪ.ni.əs// //ɛkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs// //ɪkˈstɹeɪ.ni.əs// 
  främmande, ovidkommande, yttre
  not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  extraneous /ɛkstɹˈeɪniəs/
  1. konu dışı mevzu haricî
  2. dıştan gelen, yabancı, ecnebi. extraneously  konu dışı olarak
  3. dıştan gelerek.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ɛkˈstɹeɪniəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "extraneous":
     accidental, added, additional, adrift, adventitious, alien, apart,
     barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beside the mark, beside the point,
     beside the question, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct,
     disrelated, dissociated, exotic, exterior, external, extra,
     extraorganismal, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, foreign,
     foreign-born, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, inadmissible,
     inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incidental,
     incommensurable, incomparable, inconsequent, independent,
     inessential, insular, intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, isolated,
     needless, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonsubjective, not at issue,
     objective, off the subject, other, out of place, out-of-the-way,
     outland, outlandish, outlying, outside, outward, parenthetical,
     peripheral, pointless, remote, removed, segregate, separate,
     separated, strange, superfluous, supernumerary, ulterior,
     unaffiliated, unallied, unapt, unassociated, unconnected,
     unearthly, unessential, unfitting, unnecessary, unneeded,
     unrelatable, unrelated
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 无关系的,外来的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 无关系的,外来的

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