tangential
/tan-JEN-shul/adjectiveonly slightly relevant; diverging from a course
“The Q&A wandered into tangential war stories.”
- Synonyms
- peripheral, incidental, digressive
- Antonyms
- central, relevant
- Memory hook
- tangent: touching the circle once, then gone.
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