Synonyms for irrelevant
ɪˈrɛl ə vənt; ɪˈrɛv ə ləntir·rel·e·vant

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1. irrelevantadjective

   Antonyms:
   relevant

2. irrelevantadjective

   Antonyms:
   relevant

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1. irrelevantadjective

   Foreign refers to difference of birth, alien to difference of allegiance. In their figurative use, that is foreign which is remote, unlike, or unconnected; that is alien which is conflicting, hostile, or opposed. Impertinent and irrelevant matters can not claim consideration in a certain connection; inappropriate matters could not properly be considered. Compare ALIEN, n.; CONTRAST, v.

   Synonyms:
   alien, alien, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, distant, foreign, hostile, impertinent, inappropriate, opposed, remote, strange, unconnected, unlike

   Antonyms:
   akin, appropriate, apropos, essential, germane, pertinent, proper, relevant

   Preposition:
   Such a purpose was alien to (or from) my thought: to preferable.

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1. irrelevantadjective

   having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue

   "an irrelevant comment"; "irrelevant allegations"

   Antonyms:
   pertinent, applicable, relevant, germane(p)

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1. irrelevantadjective

   Synonyms:
   inapplicable, impertinent, not relevant, not applicable, not to the point, foreign to the purpose, not bearing upon the point in question, having nothing to do with the matter, travelling out of the record

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1. List of paraphrases for "irrelevant":

   immaterial, unimportant, non-relevant, unrelated, meaningless, insignificant, extraneous, inappropriate, interest-free, indifferent, relevance, inconsequential, trivial, moot

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1. Vladyslav Vlasiuk:

   When you are working within any public service in Ukraine you have to be ready to deal with a lot of inspections, a lot of bullshit, a lot of irrelevant regulations, and the prosecution is a controlling organ which can punish you for, in their opinion, improper actions.

2. Clifford Ollier:

   If anybody wants to argue, they must argue with the facts; the place of publication is irrelevant.

3. Gen Alfred Gray, USMC:

   Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

4. Rachael Sharman:

   Bigger cities, with greater social problems will always see a low level of bystander intervention, fixing racial disparities comes back to integration, where race eventually becomes irrelevant in how a person is perceived.

5. Getty Images:

   A non-violent thief who can post $3,000 bail is no more threatening than one who can't, the money is irrelevant; being poor doesn't make a defendant inherently more dangerous. But as practiced, NY’s legal system has long operated as if poverty equals danger.