unrelated

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ related.

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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.

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