not directly connected with the particular situation you are in or the subject you are dealing with synonym irrelevant没有直接联系的;无关的 We do not want any extraneous information on the page. 我们不希望这一页上有任何无关的信息。 Coughs and extraneous noises can be edited out. 咳嗽和外来噪音可以被删除。 - extraneous to something
We shall ignore factors extraneous to the problem. 我们应该撇开与此问题无直接联系的因素。 factors extraneous to the case 与本案无关的因素
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExtraneous is used with these nouns:- factor
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin extraneus + -ous.