unrelated

(ˌʌnrɪˈleɪtɪd)

adj

1. not connected or associated: an unrelated incident.

2. not connected by kinship or marriage

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Adj.	1.	unrelated - lacking a logical or causal relation related, related to - being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics ; "painting and the related arts"; "school-related activities"; "related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces"
	2.	unrelated - not connected by kinship related - connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage

unrelated

adjective

1. unconnected, different, dissimilar, unlike, not related Two of them died from entirely unrelated causes.

2. irrelevant, unconnected, extraneous, beside the point, inappropriate, inapplicable, unassociated, not germane Two other detectives have been suspended in an unrelated matter.

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Translations

senza legame

unrelated

[ˈʌnrɪˈleɪtɪd] ADJ

1. (= unconnected) → inconexo

2. (by family) → no emparentado
they are unrelated to each other → no están emparentados

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unrelated

[ˌʌnrɪˈleɪtɪd] adj

(= unconnected) [incidents, causes] → sans rapport (l'un(e) avec l'autre)
a series of unrelated incidents → une série d'incidents sans rapport les uns avec les autres
unrelated to sth → sans rapport avec qch

[people] → sans lien de parenté
to be unrelated → ne pas avoir de lien de parenté
unrelated to sb → sans lien de parenté avec qn

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unrelated

adj (= unconnected) → ohne Beziehung (to zu); (by family) → nicht verwandt; unrelated to reality → wirklichkeitsfremd; the two events are unrelated/are not unrelated → die beiden Ereignisse stehen in keinem Zusammenhang miteinander/sind nicht gänzlich ohne Zusammenhang; they are unrelated (to each other) (people) → sie sind nicht (miteinander) verwandt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unrelated

[ˌʌnrɪˈleɪtɪd] adj unrelated (to) (unconnected) → senza nesso or rapporto (con); (by family) → non imparentato/a (con), senza legami di parentela (con)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

unrelated

adj (not connected) no asociado; (not family) no emparentado

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This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black--witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

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When I strive to remember, I have a riot of unrelated impressions and a loss of time-value.

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He had merely skimmed over the surface of things, observing detached phenomena, accumulating fragments of facts, making superficial little generalizations - and all and everything quite unrelated in a capricious and disorderly world of whim and chance.

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He was now concerned only with the nearest practical matters unrelated to his past interests, and he seized on these the more eagerly the more those past interests were closed to him.

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And so the farrago of unrelated memories continued to rise vocal on Skipper's lips to the heave of his body and the beat of his arms, while Jerry, crouched against the side of the bunk mourned and mourned his grief and inability to be of help.

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The Freshmen, instead of being a collection of unrelated individuals, found themselves a class, with a class spirit, a class yell, class interests, class antipathies and class ambitions.

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Fast along- side a wharf, littered like any ship in port with a tangle of unrelated things, invaded by unrelated shore people, I had hardly seen her yet properly.

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She felt how she had always been unrelated to this world.

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Many pictures, unrelated, came and went in Bassett's mind as he reviewed that period of his terrible wanderings.

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Evidently this Culture is not a mere knowledge of books, unrelated to the rest of life.

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She had another faint smile of a fugitive and unrelated kind as if she had been thinking of far-off things, then roused herself to grave animation.

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Gluck's confession, before he went to the electric chair, threw much light upon the series of mysterious events, many apparently unrelated, that so perturbed the world between the years 1933 and 1941.

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