not directly connected with the particular situation you are in or the subject you are dealing with synonym irrelevant沒有直接聯系的;無關的 We do not want any extraneous information on the page. 我們不希望這一頁上有任何無關的信息。 Coughs and extraneous noises can be edited out. 咳嗽和外來噪音可以被删除。 - extraneous to something
We shall ignore factors extraneous to the problem. 我們應該撇開與此問題無直接聯系的因素。 factors extraneous to the case 與本案無關的因素
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExtraneous is used with these nouns:- factor
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin extraneus + -ous.