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irrelevant

  • /ɪˈɹɛləvənt/
  • [ɪˈɹʷɛləvənt]
  • /əˈɹɛləvənt/
  • [əˈɹʷɛləvənt]

Rhymes with -ɛləvənt

adjective more irrelevant · most irrelevant

  1. Not relevant, as His comments were completely irrelevant to the discussion.

    Similar: foreign

  2. Not at all related: totally unrelated, wholly unconnected, completely inapplicable.

    Similar: foreign, unrelated, unassociated, uncorrelated, random, stochastic, alien

  3. Not usefully related: not associated in any way that is important or useful to the context being discussed: not materially applicable; having connections not applicable in the present situation.

    Similar: foreign, unimportant, immaterial, incidental, inapplicable

  4. derogatory, slang No longer famous or popular; washed up.

Similar: beside the mark, beside the point, immaterial, impertinent, irrelative, irrelevant, moot, nongermane, nonpertinent, off-topic, orthogonal, otiose, tangential, unapt, ungermane · Opposite: relevant, pertinent

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: immaterial, inapplicable, unsuitable, impertinent, extraneous, digressive, tangential, inconsequential, insignificant, pointless, inconsiderable, useless, uninterested, inane, indifferent, negligible

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adj not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected

Españolirrelevante
日本語無関係 mukankei
中文不相干的 bùxiānggān de, 不切題的 /不切题的 bùqiètí de
Portuguêsirrelevante
Françaisnon-pertinent
Deutschirrelevant, unwesentlich
Italianoirrilevante
Ελληνικάάσχετος áschetos
Românăirelevant, neimportant, nerelevant
Русскийнеподходя́щий nepodxodjáščij, несуще́ственный nesuščéstvennyj, неуме́стный neuméstnyj, нева́жный nevážnyj
العربيةعَرَضِيّ ʕaraḍiyy

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@misc{irrelevant_2026,
  title = {irrelevant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/irrelevant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}