Extraneous

Adjective

 * 1) Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign
 * to separate gold from extraneous matter
 * Extraneous substances were found on my cup of water.
 * 1) Not essential or intrinsic

Synonyms

 * additional, alien, foreign, intrusive
 * superfluous, extra

Derived terms

 * extraneously
 * extraneousness

Adverbs for Extraneous
unessentially; relatively; definitely; obviously; naturally; discordantly; exotically; curiously; strangely; mysteriously.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From extraneus:

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/ek"str{I.ni.@s/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/ek"str{I.ni.@s/}}

Translations

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 * Hungarian:


 * Portuguese: estranho
 * Serbo-Croatian: stran, nepripadajući
 * Spanish: