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Definition of Irrelevant

1. Adjective. Having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue. "Irrelevant allegations"

Definition of Irrelevant

1. Adjective. Not related, not applicable, unimportant, not connected. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Irrelevant

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrelevant

Literary usage of Irrelevant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Logic by George Hugh Smith (1901)
"This differs from the equally appropriate term irrelevant Conclusion only in ... The two names, ie, Mistaking the Issue and irrelevant Conclusion, present, ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"... and in his complaint, that he was the owner of the property claimed, any evidence showing a special property therein was irrelevant and prejudicial. ..."

3. The Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones (1896)
"Same — Rebuttal or explanation of irrelevant testimony.— If one party is allowed against objection to introduce irrelevant testimony, it is manifestly ..."

4. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"Treated monkeys were impaired relative to controls over the series of reversals in the presence, but not in the absence, of irrelevant stimuli. ..."

5. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"V. THE EXCLUSION OF irrelevant MATTER irrelevant matters should be excluded from the issues and from the argument proper whenever there is ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"Neither was the question admissible in order to test the credit of the witness; for, raising, as it did, an irrelevant inquiry, the answer could not have ..."

7. Logic by George Hugh Smith (1901)
"This differs from the equally appropriate term irrelevant Conclusion only in ... The two names, ie, Mistaking the Issue and irrelevant Conclusion, present, ..."

8. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"... and in his complaint, that he was the owner of the property claimed, any evidence showing a special property therein was irrelevant and prejudicial. ..."

9. The Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones (1896)
"Same — Rebuttal or explanation of irrelevant testimony.— If one party is allowed against objection to introduce irrelevant testimony, it is manifestly ..."

10. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"Treated monkeys were impaired relative to controls over the series of reversals in the presence, but not in the absence, of irrelevant stimuli. ..."

11. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"V. THE EXCLUSION OF irrelevant MATTER irrelevant matters should be excluded from the issues and from the argument proper whenever there is ..."

12. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"Neither was the question admissible in order to test the credit of the witness; for, raising, as it did, an irrelevant inquiry, the answer could not have ..."

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