Meanings
comparative more unrelated · superlative most unrelated
- Not connected or associated.
The holiday started with two unrelated mishaps.
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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.
Mr. Levi may have been bedeviled by buried conflicts unrelated to Auschwitz.
1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022Synonyms: irrelate, irrelated, nonrelated · Antonyms: related
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot related by kinship.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishrelated
- Englishunrelated
Translations
Bulgarian несвързан
- несвързан (nesvărzan)not connected
Chinese Mandarin 不相关的
- 不相关的not connected
Danish uafhængig, uden sammenhæng
- uafhængignot connected
- uden sammenhængnot connected
- ubeslægtetnot connected
- ubeslægtetnot related by kinship
Finnish asiaankuulumaton
- asiaankuulumatonnot connected
French sans rapport, sans lien
- sans rapportnot connected
- sans liennot connected
- non liénot connected
German unabhängig, ohne Zusammenhang
- unabhängignot connected
- ohne Zusammenhangnot connected
- nicht verwandtnot related by kinship
Irish neamhghaolmhar, neamhghaolmhar
- neamhghaolmharnot connected
- neamhghaolmharnot related by kinship
Italian non correlato
- non correlatonot connected
Japanese 関係がない, 関係ない
- 関係がない (kankei ga nai)not connected
- 関係ない (kankei nai)not connected
Norwegian uavhengig
- uavhengignot connected
Norwegian Bokmål uten sammenheng, ubeslektet
- uten sammenhengnot connected
- ubeslektetnot connected
- ikke i slektnot related by kinship
- ubeslektetnot related by kinship
Polish niezwiązany, niepowiązany
- niezwiązanynot connected
- niepowiązanynot connected
- niepowiązanynot related by kinship
Portuguese não relacionado
- não relacionadonot connected
Spanish no relacionado
- no relacionadonot connected
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Cite this entry
unrelated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrelated
“unrelated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrelated. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unrelated,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrelated.
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