Extraneous

extraneous
    adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an
           issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was
           immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before
           finally coming to the point" [syn: {extraneous},
           {immaterial}, {impertinent}, {orthogonal}]
    2: not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and
       somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
    3: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced
       from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter";
       "foreign particles in milk" [syn: {extraneous}, {foreign}]
    4: coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera
       spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income";
       "disdaining outside pressure groups" [syn: {external},
       {extraneous}, {outside}]
    

Extraneous \Ex*tra"ne*ous\, a. [L. extraneus, from extra. See
   {Extra-}, {Strange}.]
   Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or
   beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to
   separate gold from extraneous matter.
   [1913 Webster]

         Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment.
                                                  --Landor.
   -- {Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster]
    

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "extraneous":
      accidental, added, additional, adrift, adventitious, alien, apart,
      barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beside the mark, beside the point,
      beside the question, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct,
      disrelated, dissociated, exotic, exterior, external, extra,
      extraorganismal, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, foreign,
      foreign-born, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, inadmissible,
      inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incidental,
      incommensurable, incomparable, inconsequent, independent,
      inessential, insular, intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, isolated,
      needless, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonsubjective, not at issue,
      objective, off the subject, other, out of place, out-of-the-way,
      outland, outlandish, outlying, outside, outward, parenthetical,
      peripheral, pointless, remote, removed, segregate, separate,
      separated, strange, superfluous, supernumerary, ulterior,
      unaffiliated, unallied, unapt, unassociated, unconnected,
      unearthly, unessential, unfitting, unnecessary, unneeded,
      unrelatable, unrelated