blood-related
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Related by blood: Sharing a biological connection through common ancestry, such as being parent and child, siblings, or other direct familial lineage. This term emphasizes a genetic relationship, as opposed to relationships formed through marriage or adoption.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- They are blood-related, so they share many physical traits. (They are connected by biological descent, which explains their similar appearance.)
- Only blood-related relatives were invited to the private family reunion. (The event was exclusive to those with a genetic family connection.)
Advanced Usage
- Legal and Medical Contexts: The term is often used in legal documents (e.g., wills, custody cases) and medical histories to specify biological relationships, which can be crucial for determining inheritance or genetic health risks.
- The court required proof that they were blood-related before considering the inheritance claim.
- Emphasis on Biological Connection: Used to distinguish from in-laws, step-relatives, or adoptive family members.
- She has a close bond with her stepbrother, even though they are not blood-related.
Variants and Related Words
- Consanguineous (adj): A more formal, often technical term meaning related by blood or having a common ancestor.
- Consanguineous marriages are those between blood relatives.
- Biological relative (n phrase): A person to whom one is related by blood.
- Her biological relatives were located through a DNA test.
Synonyms
- Genetic: Pertaining to genes or heredity.
- Kin: One's family and relations (can include both blood and non-blood relations, but context often specifies).
Antonyms
- Unrelated: Not connected by family ties.
- Adoptive: Related through legal adoption, not biology.
- Step-: Denoting a relationship resulting from a parent's remarriage (e.g., stepfather, stepsister).
Related Phrases
- Blood relation (n phrase): A person who is related to another by birth.
- He is my closest blood relation.
- Blood is thicker than water (idiom): Suggests that family bonds (especially blood-related ones) are stronger than other relationships.
- In the end, she helped her brother, proving that blood is thicker than water.