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词汇 irrelevance
释义

Definition of irrelevance in English:

irrelevance

noun ɪˈrɛlɪv(ə)nsɪ(r)ˈrɛləvəns
mass noun
  • 1The quality or state of being irrelevant.

    the document was withheld on grounds of irrelevance
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Of course, the main problem with Health Studies, apart from the hectoring personality of our teacher, was its irrelevance.
    • Any book on any subject risks irrelevance or smallness compared to this behemoth.
    • It could make the difference between leading the world to better health or retreating into irrelevance.
    • This article on the state of professional ministry is not an argument for the irrelevance of a newly constricted profession.
    • Claims are made about the total irrelevance of humanism to the secularisation process.
    • The irrelevance of modern Marxism was brought home to me at the biggest meeting I attended.
    • It also helped contribute to the growing irrelevance of the evening network newscasts.
    • The use of it merely reminds its users of the irrelevance of their discourse.
    • Today this scholarship is threatened with dogmatism and, consequently, political irrelevance.
    • Particularly among young Americans, continuing the ban will put marriage on the road to cultural irrelevance.
    • She says Moscow is headed on a path to isolation and irrelevance because of its authoritarian policies.
    • An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance.
    • Consequently, they have been enabled to push back against their growing irrelevance, increasing their role in global finance.
    • Our core alliances, therefore, must evolve to meet the demands of this new era or they risk falling into irrelevance.
    • And irrelevance, ultimately, will be the policy's undoing.
    • Any other course risks a slow descent into irrelevance.
    • Practical approaches were also apparently undermined by the foreignness of apparatus and irrelevance of curricula in rural settings.
    • Without a healthy market to give the photographer clear direction, even the best work risks descending into a spiral of irrelevance.
    • The art historians are accused of irrelevance; the curators are accused of dumbing down.
    • Like the United Nations, it will simply wither of its own irrelevance.
    Synonyms
    inapplicability, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, peripherality, extraneousness
    inappropriateness, inappositeness, inaptness
    unimportance, inconsequentiality, insignificance
    rare impertinence
    1. 1.1count noun A person or thing that is irrelevant.
      he regarded religion as an irrelevance
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The views of British rabbis, however, are an irrelevance in Israel.
      • The fact that the book is not especially well written or in any way plausible has almost become a trifling irrelevance.
      • However, Liberal Democrat support among this demographic may well prove to be an irrelevance in the coming General Election.
      • The trade unions are a massive irrelevance.
      • Personal pride in the quality of the work you did became a sentimental irrelevance.
      • But, on his account, the availability of a court was an irrelevance.
      • But you don't take the time and space in a mass-circulation paper to repeatedly bash an irrelevance.
      • The young girl and the man of God between them manage the transformation of the Syrian commander, with the Israelite king as a narrative irrelevance.
      • The first was that the question of the lung function tests seemed to be an irrelevance where the injury was psychiatric.
      • Was the Senate an irrelevance in the governance of the empire?
      • The rest of the test was something of an irrelevance.
      • The Tories, however, have moved swiftly from being an irrelevance to becoming strangely fascinating.
      • Certainly, if she is looking for the modern threat to Scottish Protestantism, the Catholic Church is an irrelevance.
      • The sales figures of any particular vintage are almost an irrelevance.
      • Investors almost ignored the figures as an irrelevance.
      • For most Indians, religion is very much a part of their everyday lives, and the question of atheism an irrelevance.
      • But this was, after all, the late 20th century and the rather antiquated British blasphemy laws were something of an irrelevance.
      • Then, for a while, people sniggered at us and called us an irrelevance.
      • The days of the civilised embassy building are over (at least for certain nations) and architectural quality is an irrelevance.
      • In such an atmosphere, the idea of legal safeguards for people accused of abuse becomes almost an irrelevance.

Derivatives

  • irrelevancy

  • nounPlural irrelevancies ɪˈrɛlɪv(ə)nsiɪ(r)ˈrɛləv(ə)nsi
    • Any delineation between the nominally public and non-public spheres is now a hair-splitting irrelevancy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The question is, will the United Nations follow the League of Nations and risk irrelevancy.
      • When everything is digital, the word digital becomes an irrelevancy.
      • In other words, it will be phased out, perhaps not entirely, but close enough as to make it an irrelevancy.
      • But it's wild generalizations like this that point up the irrelevancy of such commercially-driven lists.

Rhymes

relevance

Definition of irrelevance in US English:

irrelevance

nouni(r)ˈreləvənsɪ(r)ˈrɛləvəns
  • 1The quality or state of being irrelevant.

    the document was withheld on grounds of irrelevance
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Claims are made about the total irrelevance of humanism to the secularisation process.
    • The use of it merely reminds its users of the irrelevance of their discourse.
    • Our core alliances, therefore, must evolve to meet the demands of this new era or they risk falling into irrelevance.
    • Like the United Nations, it will simply wither of its own irrelevance.
    • And irrelevance, ultimately, will be the policy's undoing.
    • The irrelevance of modern Marxism was brought home to me at the biggest meeting I attended.
    • This article on the state of professional ministry is not an argument for the irrelevance of a newly constricted profession.
    • Any other course risks a slow descent into irrelevance.
    • Consequently, they have been enabled to push back against their growing irrelevance, increasing their role in global finance.
    • Of course, the main problem with Health Studies, apart from the hectoring personality of our teacher, was its irrelevance.
    • She says Moscow is headed on a path to isolation and irrelevance because of its authoritarian policies.
    • Today this scholarship is threatened with dogmatism and, consequently, political irrelevance.
    • Any book on any subject risks irrelevance or smallness compared to this behemoth.
    • An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance.
    • Without a healthy market to give the photographer clear direction, even the best work risks descending into a spiral of irrelevance.
    • It could make the difference between leading the world to better health or retreating into irrelevance.
    • Practical approaches were also apparently undermined by the foreignness of apparatus and irrelevance of curricula in rural settings.
    • The art historians are accused of irrelevance; the curators are accused of dumbing down.
    • Particularly among young Americans, continuing the ban will put marriage on the road to cultural irrelevance.
    • It also helped contribute to the growing irrelevance of the evening network newscasts.
    Synonyms
    inapplicability, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, peripherality, extraneousness
    1. 1.1 A person or thing that is irrelevant.
      he regarded religion as an irrelevance
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The days of the civilised embassy building are over (at least for certain nations) and architectural quality is an irrelevance.
      • For most Indians, religion is very much a part of their everyday lives, and the question of atheism an irrelevance.
      • The fact that the book is not especially well written or in any way plausible has almost become a trifling irrelevance.
      • But, on his account, the availability of a court was an irrelevance.
      • Personal pride in the quality of the work you did became a sentimental irrelevance.
      • The first was that the question of the lung function tests seemed to be an irrelevance where the injury was psychiatric.
      • Certainly, if she is looking for the modern threat to Scottish Protestantism, the Catholic Church is an irrelevance.
      • Then, for a while, people sniggered at us and called us an irrelevance.
      • The Tories, however, have moved swiftly from being an irrelevance to becoming strangely fascinating.
      • But you don't take the time and space in a mass-circulation paper to repeatedly bash an irrelevance.
      • The sales figures of any particular vintage are almost an irrelevance.
      • The views of British rabbis, however, are an irrelevance in Israel.
      • The young girl and the man of God between them manage the transformation of the Syrian commander, with the Israelite king as a narrative irrelevance.
      • The trade unions are a massive irrelevance.
      • In such an atmosphere, the idea of legal safeguards for people accused of abuse becomes almost an irrelevance.
      • Investors almost ignored the figures as an irrelevance.
      • But this was, after all, the late 20th century and the rather antiquated British blasphemy laws were something of an irrelevance.
      • The rest of the test was something of an irrelevance.
      • Was the Senate an irrelevance in the governance of the empire?
      • However, Liberal Democrat support among this demographic may well prove to be an irrelevance in the coming General Election.
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