IRRELEVANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irrelevant mean? 

• IRRELEVANT (adjective)
  The adjective IRRELEVANT has 1 sense:

1. having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue

  Familiarity information: IRRELEVANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRELEVANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue

Context example:

irrelevant allegations

Similar:

digressive; tangential (of superficial relevance if any)

extraneous; immaterial; impertinent; orthogonal (not pertinent to the matter under consideration)

inapplicable; unsuitable (not capable of being applied)

moot (of no legal significance (as having been previously decided))

Antonym:

relevant (having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue)

Derivation:

irrelevance; irrelevancy (the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand)

 Context examples 

This is a phenomenon in which two or more particles have a similar state, and a change in one means a change in another and the distance between the two is irrelevant.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But even though Jupiter's atmosphere derives the majority of its heat from within the planet itself, this doesn't render the Sun's rays irrelevant.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

Still, of course, if you said nothing to any one about the treaty these inquiries are irrelevant.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But surely this is somewhat irrelevant?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Professor only raised his great eyebrows, as the schoolmaster meets the irrelevant observation of the naughty boy.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This may result in better protection against distracting and irrelevant inputs.

(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Only for one instant did the master spy glare at this strangely irrelevant inscription.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If ocean acidification causes larvae to be attracted to irrelevant sounds, they could end up in the wrong habitat or in inhospitable places.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)

I answer no such irrelevant and insidious questions; though were I to answer all that you could put in the course of an hour, you would never be able to prove that it was not Thornton Lacey—for such it certainly was.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Your remarks are irrelevant and unintelligible.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)