relevant and appropriate
"He asks questions that are germane and central to the issue."
"Omit details which are not germane to the discussion"
SYN - fitting
"He only wanted to hear about the germane facts, which is why he had people working hard to create compendiums of the vast material sent to him."
"It was hard for him to determine what was really germane and what was trivial and unimportant and as a result he couldn't get the paper under twenty pages."
"The black suit he was wearing would have made him stick out like a sore thumb almost every other place in town, but at this men's club it was the germane thing to wear."
"Don't tell me about this stuff unless it is germane to what we are discussing!"
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