beside
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- adposition
- /bɪˈsaɪd/
:
junto a
- You should be here because you love to do this thing and the outcome is almost beside the point.
- beside the point
- beside other
That I'm the one who's ended up telling it is almost beside the point.
- That I'm the one who's ended up telling it is almost beside the point.
- You should be here because you love to do this thing and the outcome is almost beside the point.
- Earths are so dim compared to the big bright massive * beside them.
Examples
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But that is beside the point.
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The details of the plan are beside the point of whether we should proceed with it.
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What we did is beside the point!
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But whether we like each other or not is really beside the point.
Fiction book (1993) -
Hope, in other words, seemed a little beside the point for Susan.
Fiction book (1993) -
When dealing with numbers like this, the precise statistics come to be beside the point.
Academic text (2008) -
But that's beside the point.
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Well, that's beside the point.
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Such moves to secure Havel, to pin him down, are rather beside the point.
Academic text (1992) -
Three simple words, but everything else paled beside them: social security, campaign finance reform, education vouchers.
Fiction book (2002)
Antonyms
Idioms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Beside comes from be- 'by' and side 'side', so it originally meant 'by the side of' something, and when you look at two things side by side one can seem smaller or less, which is why we use beside to show comparison.