All 4 Uses
irrelevant
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- It is, however, true that my dreaming, my tentative advance like one carried beneath the surface of a stream, is interrupted, torn, pricked and plucked at by sensations, spontaneous and irrelevant, of curiosity, greed, desire, irresponsible as in sleep.†
irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- The bell is pressed and I do not ring or give out irrelevant clamours all jangled.†
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- I said that nothing should be irrelevant, like a piece of brown paper dropped casually on the floor.†
- One must have patience and infinite care and let the light sound, whether of spiders' delicate feet on a leaf or the chuckle of water in some irrelevant drain-pipe, unfold too.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(irrelevant) not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)