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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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verb

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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Dictionary Entry

irrelevance

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ir-rel-uh-vuhns/

The state of not being relevant or important to something.

In a Sentence

“The student's comments about his favorite video game were dismissed due to their irrelevance to the history lesson.”

Origin

From medieval Latin 'irrelevans', from 'in-' (not) + 'relevare' (to lift).

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Synonyms

unimportanceinsignificancetrivialityextraneousnessnon-applicabilitypointlessness

Antonyms

relevanceimportancesignificancepertinenceapplicabilityconsequence

Related Words

irrelevantrelevantrelaterelationrelatedrelevancyirrelevancyrelevance

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