Usually means: Irrelevant or unrelated to subject.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word extraneous:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. extraneous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extraneous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extraneous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extraneous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extraneous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extraneous, extraneous: Wordnik
  7. extraneous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extraneous: Wiktionary
  9. extraneous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extraneous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extraneous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Extraneous, extraneous: Dictionary.com
  13. extraneous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. extraneous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Extraneous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. extraneous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. extraneous: Rhymezone
  18. Extraneous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. extraneous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. extraneous: Free Dictionary
  21. extraneous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. extraneous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. extraneous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extraneous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extraneous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Extraneous: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. extraneous: Medical dictionary

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adjective:  Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign.
adjective:  Not essential or intrinsic.

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