Meaning & use
extraneously
In a way that is irrelevant or unnecessary to the main subject or purpose.
See it in a sentence
The report mentioned, extraneously, details about the weather that had nothing to do with the results.
He worried the essay wandered extraneously instead of sticking to its central argument.
A note on using this word
'Extraneously' is rare in speech and mostly appears in formal or academic writing about relevance and structure.
Words with a similar meaning
irrelevantlyneedlessly
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