单词 | irrelevant |
释义 | irrelevant (once / 1252 pages) adj If you're talking about hockey and someone keeps trying to mention football, you might describe their comments as irrelevant. Irrelevant means not related to the subject at hand. If a rock star becomes irrelevant, it means people are not relating––or even listening––to his music anymore. It isn't part of what people are thinking or talking about. The opposite is relevant, meaning related. An analysis of brush strokes in Manet's painting would be relevant to a discussion of texture in painting in general. Relevant was borrowed from Medieval Latin relevare "to bear upon," from Latin, "to lift up." The prefix ir-, meaning "not," is a variant of in- before words that begin with the letter r. WORD FAMILYirrelevant: irrelevance, irrelevancy, irrelevantly+/irrelevance: irrelevances/irrelevancy: irrelevancies/relevancy: relevancies/relevant: irrelevant, relevance, relevancy, relevantly USAGE EXAMPLESIrrelevant, because Trump outsources the FBI’s duties to the KGB. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) The parents say the documents are irrelevant and that the repeated demands for them are harassing and invasive. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) He says that the fact that Ramzan is nearly three times his daughter’s age is irrelevant. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) adj having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue an irrelevant comment irrelevant allegations Syn|Ant digressive, tangential of superficial relevance if any extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonalnot pertinent to the matter under consideration inapplicable, unsuitablenot capable of being applied mootof no legal significance (as having been previously decided) relevant having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue applicablecapable of being applied; having relevance germanerelevant and appropriate pertinenthaving precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand |
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