irrelevantly

From irrelevant +‎ -ly.

irrelevantly (comparative more irrelevantly, superlative most irrelevantly)

1. In an irrelevant manner.
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 111:

     “Not yet,” replied Jane, and then, quite irrelevantly, “I wish England were a million miles from here.”

   • 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 61:

     'Our population would be the same, and our world would still have been dying of its own waste heat!' Irrelevantly, Teela said, 'I wish we could see out.'

• relevantly

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “irrelevantly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.