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tangential

adjectiveHigh-frequency wordMore T words

only loosely relevant; diverging from the main point

In a sentence

Her remarks were so tangential that the committee forgot what they had originally been debating.

Synonyms
peripheraldigressiveincidentalextraneous
Antonyms
centralrelevantpertinent

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