extraneous
Meaning of extraneous
- Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign
Extraneous substances were found on my cup of water.
- Not essential or intrinsic
Information about extraneous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of extraneous
ex-tra-ne-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- extraneous is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
extraneous synonyms
Meaning immaterial:
immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal
Meaning foreign:
Meaning external:
Meaning :
additional, alien, intrusive, extra, superfluous
Translation of extraneous
- French: étranger, secondaire
- Spanish: extraño, ortogonal, irrelevante, extraña, secundario, secundaria, extranjero, extranjera
- German: belanglos, irrelevant, unwesentlich, fremd, körperfremd
- Italian: estraneo, irrilevante, secondario, esterno
Words that rhyme with extraneous
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