Words and phrases that have a meaning related to extraneous: (148 results)
Often used in the same context:
superfluous, trivial, tangential, unnecessary, inessential, unessential, unimportant, incidental, inconsequential, mundane, unneeded, distracting, nugatory, contentless, insubstantial, indigestible, gratuitous, irrelevant, frivolous, undesirable, textual, repetitive, germane, nonsensical, adverbial, undesired, repetitious, insignificant, banal, useless, trifling, footling, predigested, otiose, subjective, aleatory, hortatory, arcane, convolute, meaningless, pointless, uninteresting, inharmonious, nonproductive, preconscious, purposeless, distractive, mala fide, unsavory, extrinsic, esoteric, extenuating, nonrestrictive, duplicative, procedural, longwinded, ludic, minutest, unsubstantial, miscellaneous, expository, prosaic, terminological, abstruse, unauthentic, intangible, anthropic, aesthetical, obiter dictum, trite, tricksy, unobvious, disjunctive, mindless, hackneyed, procrustean, ulterior, devoid, nonmaterial, captious, weighty, unaesthetic, obscure, spurious, unrequested, anachronistic, stagey, superficial, odious, rote, meretricious, interruptive, actual, fleshly, vexatious, denotative, perfunctory, arbitrary, nitpicky, ostensive, objectionable, vacuous, adventitious, external, unrelated, extralinguistic, imponderable, perturbing, additional, arousing, extemal, extramusical, material, salient, unconnected, unwanted, weightier
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adulterant, adulterating, adulteration, background, background noise, background signal, bare, concentration, debasement, embellishment, ground noise, impure, laminar flow clean room, open marriage, ornamentation, plain, pure, pureness, purity, rectify, refine, sheer, stripped, uncluttered, unlittered, unmingled, unmixed
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Also try:foreign, immaterial, impertinent, outside
— Nouns for extraneous: variables, factors, matter, material, influences, information, matters, noise, elements, considerations, sources, more...
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