Adjective: irrelevant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more irrelevant |
| Superlative | most irrelevant |
Sample Sentences
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His comments were completely irrelevant to the discussion.
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We need to focus on the main topic and ignore irrelevant details.
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The fact that she is his sister is irrelevant to the case.
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Andy Kirby said that, on her second day in his class, Velvet declared algebra irrelevant to her life and strolled out the door. "Haven't seen her since," he said. [2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.35]
Adjectives inflected like irrelevant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Italic *n̥-
5. Latin in-
6. Latin ir-
7. English ir-
8. English relevant
9. English irrelevant
10. From ir- + relevant.
Verbs referencing "irrelevant"
Finnish Adjectives
irrelevantti, Polish Adjectives
irrelewantny.