beside
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1.0
- adposition
- /bɪˈsaɪd/
:
aparte de
- And so the debate about nature versus nurture as to what people are entitled to is really beside the point.
- beside the point
But that's kind of beside the point of the whole thing.
- But that's kind of beside the point of the whole thing.
- And I think that science is imagination beside just being calculation and numbers.
- But both of those objections are beside the point.
- But some of the things we touch on are surrealism and da da and Gothic architecture and plenty of other things beside.
- You now have to tell me anybody else beside Howard Stern, who has brought an audience from A to B, which is a different.
- You know, a pre dawn meal and then a post a sunset meal, which I write about in in the book Ramadan fasting is really useful, but that's beside the point.
Examples
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- A net around the Museum, but it may be beside the point.
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The problem was that the country's leaders at the time viewed all this as beside the point.
Academic text (2009) -
But what he intended was beside the point anyway, and he knew it.
Academic text (2000) -
But both of those objections are beside the point.
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Of course the kids would rather have jeans, but that was beside the point.
Fiction book (2000) -
How well the chiefs fare as individuals is beside the point here.
Academic text (1993) -
The attempt to debunk the stories with scientific fact was ultimately beside the point.
Academic text (2014) -
But that is beside the point when no equitable relief is sought.
Academic text (2018) -
Of course, Christianity has co-opted some of those traditions, but that's beside the point.
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The details of the project are important, but they are beside the focus of our discussion.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not including a person or thing
463
4.1
Not including something when you think about a situation
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Not including someone or something
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1.0
Except for something or someone
Idioms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Beside also comes from be- 'by' and side 'side'; a helpful way to remember this 'except' sense is to think of someone being the one 'by the side' and not the others, so beside can mean 'other than' or 'except for'.