| Word |
Germane
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| having close kinship and appropriateness; he asks questions that are germane and central to the issue / relevant and appropriate / Literally, near akin / pertinent; bearing upon the case at hand / relevant to a subject under consideration. / relating to a subject in an appropriate way, | |
| Usage | ⇒ His comments were not germane to the main discussion ⇒ The lawyer objected that the testimony being offered was not germane to the case at hand,. ⇒ facts germane to the dispute ⇒ that is not germane to our theme ⇒ These factors are not germane to this discussion |
| Synonyms | relevant, pertinent, appropriate, applicable, apposite, apropos, apt, fitting, related, suitable, akin, kindred, proper, felicitous, material, relative, allied, connected, affiliated, becoming, |
| Antonyms | irrelevant, inappropriate, unsuitable, improper, inapplicable, extraneous, immaterial, inapt, irrelative, conflicting, foreign, impertinent, inadmissible, inapposite, incoherent, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, incorrect, |
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