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Definition of "irrelative" [ir•rel•a•tive]

  • Having no correlative relationship; unconnected. (adjective)
  • Irrelevant. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "irrelative" in a sentence
  • "Though the backgrounds of New Orleans and Kassel (and their respective contexts of trauma) are obviously separate with highly divergent degrees of heinous social injury, they are certainly not incomparable or irrelative."
  • "'' No disrespect to Carolina and all this other stuff because it's irrelative right now."
  • "‘WHICH, was you pleased to observe, Miss Varden?’ said Miggs, with a strong emphasis on the irrelative pronoun."