IRRELEVANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irrelevantly mean? 

• IRRELEVANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb IRRELEVANTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an irrelevant manner

  Familiarity information: IRRELEVANTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRELEVANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an irrelevant manner

Context example:

suddenly and irrelevantly, she asked him for money

Antonym:

relevantly (with relevance)

Pertainym:

irrelevant (having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue)

 Context examples 

"Why have you followed me into this frightful country?" she asked irrelevantly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Come out to dinner to-morrow," she invited irrelevantly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"This is so different from what I thought love would be," she announced irrelevantly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Quite irrelevantly, still at the telephone and talking with her, he felt an overpowering desire to die for her, and visions of heroic sacrifice shaped and dissolved in his whirling brain.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Irrelevantly, insistently, scores of times, he wondered when they would come on and what they looked like.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"How gorgeous! Let's go back, Tom. Tomorrow!" Then she added irrelevantly, "You ought to see the baby."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)