What is another word for beside the point?

Pronunciation: [bɪsˌa͡ɪd ðə pˈɔ͡ɪnt] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the phrase "beside the point" that can be used to convey the same meaning. For instance, "irrelevant" is a common synonym that can be used to describe something that is not related to the topic at hand. Similarly, "immaterial" and "inconsequential" are also synonyms that can be used to describe things that are not relevant or important. Additionally, "off-topic" and "tangential" can be used to indicate that something is not directly related to the discussion. Finally, "beside the mark" and "off the mark" are idiomatic expressions that can be used to suggest that something is not relevant or important to the conversation.

What are the hypernyms for Beside the point?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for beside the point?

Antonyms for the phrase "beside the point" may include "relevant," "pertinent," or "germane," which all imply that the matter in question has direct bearing on the topic at hand. Other possible antonyms include "on point," "appropriate," and "connected." These terms suggest that the discussion is focused and purposeful, without straying off-topic or engaging in irrelevant tangents. Conversely, some antonyms for "beside the point" may include "off-topic," "unrelated," or "extraneous," which communicate that the matter at hand is not germane to the discussion or is unlikely to contribute to the conversation in any meaningful way.

What are the antonyms for Beside the point?

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Famous quotes with Beside the point

  • I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
    Michael Caine
  • I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.
    Holly Hunter
  • “What about spatial relationships?” the investigator inquired, as I was looking at the books. It was difficult to answer. True, the perspective looked rather odd, and the walls of the room no longer seemed to meet in right angles. But these were not the really important facts. The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as Where?—How far?—How situated in relation to what? In the mescalin experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its Perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. I saw the books, but was not at all concerned with their positions in space. What I noticed, what impressed itself upon my mind was the fact that all of them glowed with living light and that in some the glory was more manifest than in others. In this context position and the three dimensions were beside the point. Not, of course, that the category of space had been abolished. When I got up and walked about, I could do so quite normally, without misjudging the whereabouts of objects. Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.
    Aldous Huxley
  • Steiner's incredible industry was self defeating. The mountain of titles, the avalanche of ideas, obscures the clarity and simplicity of his basic insight. Nevertheless, for the reader who declines to be discouraged, the rewards can be enormous. Once the basic insight has been grasped, we can begin to understand the source of those tremendous mental energies, and the sheer breadth of Steiner's vision. It hardly matters that there is a great deal that we may find unacceptable, or even repellent. What is so absorbing is to be in contact with a mind that was capable of this astonishing range of inner experience. Steiner was a man who had discovered an important secret; his books are fascinating because they contain continual glimpses of this secret. We may read them critically, wondering where Steiner was 'amplifying' genuine intuitions, and where he was amplifying his own dreams and imaginings. We may even conclude that Swedenborg, Blake, and Madame Blavatsky had all developed the same power of amplification, and that Steiner's visions of angelic hierarchies are no truer than Swedenborg's visions of heaven and hell, Blake's visions of the daughters of Albion, or Madame Blavatsky's visions of the giants of Atlantis. But all that is beside the point. The real point is that this faculty of amplification is our human birthright, and that anyone who can grasp this can learn to pass through that door to the inner universe as easily as he could stroll through the entrance of the British Museum.
    Rudolf Steiner
  • Though Richard’s Wikipedia entry had been quiet lately, in the past it had been turbulent with edit wars between mysterious people, known only by their IP addresses, who seemed to want to emphasize aspects of his life that now struck him as, while technically true, completely beside the point. Fortunately this had all happened after Dad had become too infirm to manipulate a mouse, but it didn’t stop younger Forthrasts.
    Neal Stephenson

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