Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside;
- Example: "extrinsic evidence"- Example: "an extrinsic feature of the new building"- Example: "that style is something extrinsic to the subject"- Example: "looking for extrinsic aid"
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.
[1913 Webster]
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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WordNet (r) 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "extrinsic":
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