adj, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of relate form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Standing in relation or connection.

   "Electric and magnetic forces are closely related."

2. 2
   Being a relative of.

   "Everyone is related to their parents."

3. 3
   Narrated; told.
4. 4
   Synonym of relative. not-comparable
5. 5
   Fulfilling a relation.

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6. 6
   Having a relationship with the thing named. in-compounds, not-comparable

   "gun-related crime"

Adjective

1. 1
   connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage wordnet
2. 2
   being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

affiliatedaffinalalliedcognateconsanguineouscorrelated

Antonyms

All antonyms

climbfremdimmaterialneither here nor there

Example

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"None of us are related to the problem."

Related phrases

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