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beside the point

beside the point adjective: irrelevant, moot.

Adjective

beside the point (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Irrelevant, moot.
    • His many charitable donations are beside the point. They do not make up for the fact that he stole the money to begin with.
    Antonyms:
    to the point

Adverb

beside the point (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Irrelevantly, off-topic.
    • Judges in the British law courts used to tell lawyers who spoke beside the point or quoted irrelevant cases that they might as well say that Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood.1944, George Stimpson, A Book about a Thousand Things, quoted in Marcus A.J. Smith and Julian Wasserman, "In the Sheriff's Court: […] ", in Thomas G. Hahn (editor), Robin Hood in Popular Culture...

beside the point meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

beside the point in Bengali

অপ্রাসঙ্গিক, অর্থহীন, অপ্রাসঙ্গিকভাবে, প্রসঙ্গের বাইরে

beside the point in Malayalam

irrelevant, not pertinent, immaterial
അപ്രസക്തമായ, പ്രസക്തമല്ലാത്ത, പ്രസക്തിയില്ലാത്ത, അപ്രസ്തുത, പൊരുത്തമില്ലാത്ത, അസംബന്ധമായ

Synonyms of beside the point

Antonyms

Forms of beside the point

alternative uncommonbesides the point

Questions about beside the point

What does beside the point mean?
Beside the point means irrelevant, moot.
What is beside the point in Bengali?
Beside the point in Bengali is অপ্রাসঙ্গিক, অর্থহীন, অপ্রাসঙ্গিকভাবে. See Beside the point meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is beside the point?
Beside the point can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near beside the point in the dictionary

  1. Besicovitch set
  2. Besicovitch sets
  3. beside
  4. beside oneself
  5. beside the mark
  6. beside the point
  7. besideness
  8. besides
  9. besides oneself
  10. besides the point
  11. besiegable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beside the point (page history and authors); beside the point (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beside the point (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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