germane
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Relevant and closely connected to the matter under discussion.
Only two of the cited studies are germane to the present question.
Medicine adjective
Relevant and closely connected to the matter at hand.
The registrar was reminded to include only history germane to the presenting complaint.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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