extraneously

Definitions

In a manner that is irrelevant or unrelated to the subject at hand.

From an external source or origin; coming from the outside.

Examples

The report included several paragraphs that were added extraneously, distracting from the main argument.

He spoke extraneously about his personal hobbies during the formal business presentation.

Synonyms

irrelevant unnecessarily superfluously extrinsically incidentally tangentially needlessly

Antonyms

essentially intrinsically relevantly necessarily centrally fundamentally importantly