unrelated

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English related

English unrelated

From un- + related.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unrelated (comparative more unrelated, superlative most unrelated)

1. Not connected or associated.

   Synonyms: irrelate, irrelated, nonrelated

   Antonym: related

   The holiday started with two unrelated mishaps.

   I was having lunch with Jim the other day, who's just had his first kid. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, there's a new cinema opened up in town.

   • 1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 August 2022:

     Mr. Levi may have been bedeviled by buried conflicts unrelated to Auschwitz.

2. Not related by kinship.

   Antonym: related

   He had the same surname as me, but we were unrelated.

Derived terms

• unrelatedly
• unrelatedness

Translations

not connected

• Bulgarian: несвързан (bg) (nesvǎrzan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不相关的

• Danish: uafhængig (da), uden sammenhæng, ubeslægtet
• Finnish: asiaankuulumaton (fi)
• French: sans rapport, sans lien, non lié
• German: unabhängig (de), ohne Zusammenhang
• Irish: neamhghaolmhar
• Italian: non correlato
• Japanese: 関係がない (kankei ga nai), 関係ない (kankei nai) (informal)
• Norwegian: uavhengig (no)

  Bokmål: uten sammenheng, ubeslektet

• Old English: unġesibb
• Polish: niezwiązany, niepowiązany (pl)
• Portuguese: não relacionado
• Spanish: no relacionado
• Tocharian B: aletstse

not related by kinship

• Danish: ubeslægtet
• German: nicht verwandt
• Irish: neamhghaolmhar
• Middle English: fremde
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ikke i slekt, ubeslektet

  Nynorsk: ikkje i slekt

• Old English: unġesibb
• Polish: niepowiązany (pl)

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