| 单词 | unrelated |
| 释义 | unrelated (once / 3940 pages) 1adj 2adj Unrelated is a good way to describe things that aren't connected or linked in any way. You might insist that your dented car bumper is unrelated to your neighbor's smashed mailbox. Things that have no connection are unrelated: your excellent test grade is unrelated to the shoes your wore on the day you took it, and your inability remember the name of the movie you just watched is unrelated to the fact that the sun is shining. You can also describe two people who aren't in the same family as unrelated. The Latin root is relatus, a past participle of referre, "bring back." WORD FAMILYunrelated: unrelatedly, unrelatedness+/interrelate: interrelated, interrelating, interrelation/interrelated: interrelatedness/interrelation: interrelations, interrelationship/interrelationship: interrelationships/relate: interrelate, related, relates, relating, relation, relative/related: relatedly, relatedness, unrelated/relation: relational, relations, relationship/relational: relationally/relationship: relationships/relative: relatively, relatives, relativise, relativism, relativity, relativize/relativistic: relativistically/relativity: relativistic, relativities/relativize: relativizes USAGE EXAMPLESBut because the budget rules do not allow for unrelated language, the mandate itself was not repealed. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) A woman was arrested there and another man was arrested later after he showed up at a police station in an unrelated matter. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Both photos are from unrelated news events in different parts of the country. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 adj lacking a logical or causal relation 2Syn|Ant misrelated mistakenly related orthogonalstatistically unrelated uncorrelatednot varying together related, related to being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics affiliated, attached, connectedbeing joined in close association age-relatedchanging (increasing or decreasing) as an individual's age increases bound upclosely or inseparably connected or associated with cognatehaving the same ancestral language cognate, connaterelated in nature coreferentrelated by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction correlate, correlated, correlativemutually related correspondingaccompanying side by sideclosely related or associated adj not connected by kinship Syn|Ant unconnected not connected by birth or family related connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage direct, linealin a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child collateral, indirectdescended from a common ancestor but through different lines affinal, affine(anthropology) related by marriage agnate, agnatic, paternalrelated on the father's side akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kinrelated by blood alliedrelated by common characteristics or ancestry descendant, descendentproceeding by descent from an ancestor enate, enatic, maternalrelated on the mother's side kindredrelated by blood or marriage |
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