uncentraladj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective] > irrelevant
foreigna1393
unpertinentc1400
impertinentc1450
peregrine1532
far-fet1533
exorbitant1534
unrelevant1558
stravagant1565
fremd1581
unappliable1588
misapplied1596
immaterial1598
far-fetched1607
misdevoted1623
unappertaining1645
irrelativea1657
inapposite1661
unconcerned1683
scandalous1750
uncentral1782
irrelevant1786
tangent1787
inappertinent1814
unappropriate1818
tangential1867
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > discursive or digressive
digressinga1535
exorbitant1534
discursive1598
solute1605
digressive?1611
excursive1673
rimble-ramble1690
land-loping1694
digressionary1741
parenthetic1782
uncentral1782
digressional1785
parenthetical1814
discursative1819
discursory1830
episodic1867
winding1887
1782 T. Paine Let. to Abbe Raynal (1791) 54 The greater part of the Abbe's writings..appear to me uncentral and burthened with variety.
1911 R. Brooke Let. Mar. (1968) 292 One's whole personality was there—only, somehow without the point. One was curiously uncentral.
1977 D. Jones My Friend Dylan Thomas iv. 40 This unlocal, uncentral world where the pubs are bad and the people are sly.
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