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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acquired, adrift, alien, apparent, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, conventionalized, cortical, epidermic, exomorphic, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extraterrestrial, foreign, foreign-born, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, fringe, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, legalistic, nihil ad rem, nominal, nonessential, nonsubjective, not at issue, objective, off the subject, open, out, out-of-the-way, outer, outermost, outland, outlandish, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, parenthetical, pedantic, peripheral, public, roundabout, seeming, strange, stylized, superficial, surface, ulterior, unearthly, unessential, unrelated
Dictionary Results for extrinsic:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
extrinsic
    adj 1: not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or
           originating from the outside; "extrinsic evidence"; "an
           extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is
           something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for
           extrinsic aid" [ant: intrinsic, intrinsical]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Extrinsic \Ex*trin"sic\, a. [L. extrinsecus; exter on the
   outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F.
   extrins[`e]que. See Exterior, Second.]
   1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external;
      outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic.
      [1913 Webster]

            The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial
            culture.                              --I. Taylor.
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   2. (Anat.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to
      some other part; -- said of certain groups of muscles.
      Opposed to intrinsic.
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