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What does extraneous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word extraneous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign
  2. Not essential or intrinsic
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It would have been one more extraneous detail in an already overdetailed canvas.
This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
Years bleed into one another as file cabinets bulge with extraneous information.
Everyone did quite well on their own, as a matter of fact, and I was extraneous, to say the least.
Later, of course, his Honour turns to consider this evidence which was right at the heart, far from being extraneous.
His writing is compact, there is description and dialogue here, but nothing extraneous to the plot, or plots, of which there are many.

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