Vocabulary
Extraneous
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
Urdu meaning
غیر وابستہ، غیر متعلق، بیرونی، خارجی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- With respect to the superior judiciary, the chief justice seemed concerned about the allegations of extraneous pressure that have dogged the courts for the past many years.
- While Chief Justice Afridi`s guidelines to counter extraneous influences are commendable, their success hinges on vigorous enforcement against powerful actors a challenge past chief justices, too, could not fully surmount.
- It is scandalous when extraneous parties, lacking ownershipdocumentation, are permitted by courts to challenge procedural and administrative decisions of the CDA using Article 199, where the obvious intent is to harass the bona fide owners.
- And its internal `disarray` and jurisprudential dissonance have largely incited extraneous elements to intrude into, if not control, its space literally and metaphorically.
- The more lethal and lasting kind is demonstrated by some weak or ambitious judges when they allow themselves to be prodded (read: dictated) by extraneous forces civil and military.
Synonyms
irrelevant, immaterial, beside the point, not to the point, neither here nor there, nothing to do with it,
Curator example
“one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material”
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