"irrelevant" meaning in English

See irrelevant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: ɪrɛ́ləvənt Audio: en-us-irrelevant.ogg [US] Forms: irrelevant [positive], more irrelevant [comparative], most irrelevant [superlative]
Etymology: ir- + relevant Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|ir|relevant}} ir- + relevant Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If something is irrelevant, it is not related or connected to the current topic.
    Sense id: simple-irrelevant-en-adj-hachLvCj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms prefixed with ir-
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