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Word | Tangential |
of superficial relevance if any; a digressive allusion to the day of the week; a tangential remark / of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent / Of or pertaining to a tangent / peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing / of, relating to, or along a tangent. / slightly or indirectly related to something : not closely connected to something / geometry : relating to a tangent : in or along a tangent, | |
Usage | ⇒ Despite Clark's attempts to distract her with tangential remarks, Lois kept on coming back to her main question: why couldn't he come out to dinner with Superman and her? ⇒ Their romance is tangential to the book's main plot. ⇒ a tangential line |
Synonyms | digressive, extraneous, irrelevant, peripheral, divergent, minor, tangent, touching, unimportant, unrelated, approaching, in contact, osculatory, parenthetic, rambling, secondary, side, asymptotic, brushing, centripetal, |
Antonyms | relevant, accurate, central, core, artless, chief, coherent, consequential, considerable, consistent, constitutive, critical, crucial, decisive, direct, great, important, inherent, innate, instinctive, |
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