unrelated

/' nri'leitid/

Thân thiện

The two topics are completely unrelated.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not connected by kinship: Not sharing a family relationship or bloodline.
   • Lacking a logical or causal relation: Not having a connection, relevance, or influence between things or ideas.

Usage and Examples

• As an adjective:
  • The two suspects are unrelated; they come from completely different families. (The two suspects are not connected by family.)
  • Her comment was interesting but unrelated to the main topic of the meeting. (Her comment was not logically connected to the topic.)
  • He studied physics and unrelated subjects like art history. (He studied subjects that do not have a direct causal or logical connection.)

Advanced Usage

• "to be unrelated to": This is the most common construction to specify what something lacks a connection with.
  • The first theory was ultimately unrelated to the final discovery. (The first theory did not cause or logically lead to the discovery.)
• Used in formal and academic writing to denote a lack of association or correlation.
  • The study found the two variables to be statistically unrelated.

Variants and Related Words

• Unrelatedness (noun): The state or quality of being unrelated.
  • The unrelatedness of the evidence made it inadmissible in court.
• Related (adjective): The direct antonym, meaning connected or associated.

Synonyms

• Unconnected: Not joined or linked.
• Irrelevant: Not pertinent to the matter at hand.
• Extraneous: Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject.
• Dissociated: Disconnected or separated.

Antonyms

• Related: Connected, associated, or akin.
• Connected: Linked or joined.
• Relevant: Closely connected or appropriate.
• Germane: Relevant to a subject under consideration.

Notes on Meaning

• The word unrelated can describe both concrete relationships (like family) and abstract relationships (like ideas or events).
• It is neutral and does not imply whether the lack of relation is good or bad; it is simply a statement of fact.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. not connected by kinship
2. lacking a logical or causal relation