extraneous to

Definitions

Not relevant or applicable to the matter at hand.

Coming from the outside; external or not belonging to the essential nature of something.

Examples

The committee decided to remove all information that was extraneous to the main topic of the report.

His comments were entirely extraneous to the discussion and served only to distract the participants.

Synonyms

irrelevant to unrelated to outside the scope of not pertinent to inconsequential to beside the point of

Antonyms

essential to integral to germane to pertinent to central to intrinsic to