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irrelevantly

adv

Etymology

From irrelevant + -ly.

  1. borrowed from relevāns
  2. borrowed from relevant
  3. formed as irrelevant — “ir- + relevant”
  4. suffixed as irrelevantly — “irrelevant + ly”

Definitions

  1. In an irrelevant manner.

    • “Not yet,” replied Jane, and then, quite irrelevantly, “I wish England were a million miles from here.”
    • 'Our population would be the same, and our world would still have been dying of its own waste heat!' Irrelevantly, Teela said, 'I wish we could see out.'

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA