Word Meanings - EXTRANEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter. Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. Landor. -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTRANEOUS)

• Foreign
• Strange
• exotic
• outlandish
• alien
• irrelevant
• extraneous
• Outward
• External
• apparent
• visible
• sensible
• superficial
• ostensible
• forthcoming
• extrinsic

Related words: (words related to EXTRANEOUS)

• EXOTIC
  Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.
• ALIENAGE
  1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• APPARENTLY
  1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
• VISIBLE
  1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• EXTERNAL
  Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
• EXTRINSICAL
  Extrinsic. -- Ex*trin"sic*al*ly , adv.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
• ALIENEE
  One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.
• EXOTICAL
  Foreign; not native; exotic. -- Ex*ot"ic*al*ness, n.
• EXTERNALLY
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• OUTWARD; OUTWARDS
  From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward. The wrong side may be turned outward. Shak. Light falling on them is not reflected outwards.
• SENSIBLENESS
  1. The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility. "The sensibleness of the eye." Sharp. "Sensibleness and sorrow for sin." Hammond. The sensibleness of the divine presence. Hallywell.
• ALIENATE
  Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.
• EXTRINSICALITY; EXTRINSICALNESS
  The state or quality of being extrinsic.
• SUPERFICIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage. 2. Reaching or comprehending only what is obvious
• SENSIBLE
  1. Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; sensible resistance. Air is sensible to the touch by its
• EXTERNALITY
  State of being external; exteriority;
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• INALIENABLY
  In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.
• SALIENT
  Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing;
• INALIENABLE
  Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.
• SUPERSALIENCY
  The act of leaping on anything. Sir T. Browne.
• COUNTER-SALIENT
  Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.
• DIVISIBLE
  Capable of being divided or separated. Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. Sir W. Hamilton. Divisible contract , a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. -- Divisible offense , an offense
• SUBDIVISIBLE
  Susceptible of subdivision.