extraneous
I
adjective
additional, alien, alienus, aside from the point, coming from without, derived from without, dispensable, extra, extraneus, extrinsic, extrinsical, foreign, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, irrelative, irrelevant, needless, noncompulsory, nonessential, nonpertinent, optional, peripheral, pleonastic, redundant, strange, subsidiary, superfluous, supervenient, supplementary, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, uncalled for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unrelated
associated concepts: extraneous evidence
II
index
circumstantial, collateral (immaterial), expendable, extrinsic, foreign, gratuitous (unwarranted), immaterial, impertinent (irrelevant), inapposite, irrelevant, needless, nonessential, peripheral, tangential, unessential, unnecessary, unrelated
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006