The rich, the well-favored, the well-situated, are surrounded with a confusing protective mass of extraneous and irrelevant matter that tends to hide the substance beneath.
Minimalist design is not merely a visual aesthetic; it's a philosophy that prioritizes function over form, shunning extraneous details and embellishments in favor of straightforwardness and efficacy.
Something described as extraneous does not form a necessary part of something else, and may also therefore be considered irrelevant or unimportant (as in " extraneous details" ).
Recently, American scientists discovered that by using a tweaked shampoo recipe on old woolly mammoth hair, they could remove the extraneous bacteria from the strands and get clean DNA samples.
There have been a lot of complaints about our department's spending on extraneous things, and to quell the masses, the department head is making some major changes.