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English
Etymology
From ir- + relative.
Pronunciation
Adjective
irrelative (comparative more irrelative, superlative most irrelative)
- Having no relations to each other; unrelated.
- Not related to the subject at hand; irrelevant.
1934, F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter 7, in Tender is the Night, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962, →OCLC, page 42:When the subject of Mr. Denby fell of its own weight, he essayed other equally irrelative themes, but each time the very deference of Dick's attention seemed to paralyze him, and after a moment's stark pause the conversation that he had interrupted would go on without him.
- (music) Describing two or more chords which do not share any notes in common.
Irrelative chords in music are those having no common tone.
Derived terms
Translations
Having no relations to each other