unrelated
/ʌnrɪˈleɪtɪd
/adjective
Not related or linked: unrelated facts households containing two or more unrelated people...
- I get carried away with my attempts to link the most unrelated posts I can find.
- In the strange world of synchronicity and serendipity that we inhabit, these two facts are not unrelated.
- There was no single cause of the shame, rather a series of unrelated facts.
Synonyms
separate, unconnected, independent, unattached, unassociated, unlinked, unallied, distinct, discrete, individual, uncoupled;
unlike, varying, variant, disparate
irrelevant, immaterial, inapplicable, unconcerned, inapt, foreign, alien, extraneous, extrinsic, peripheral, off the subject, beside/off the point, wide of the mark, not pertinent, not germane
informal neither here nor there
Derivatives
unrelatedness
- The observed prevalence of ‘genotoxic’ carcinogens can then be compared with the prevalence expected based upon unrelatedness.
- The four main characters are quite different from one another in their respective personas but bear great similarity with regard to their shared immaturity, amorality, narcissism, unrelatedness, and general ill will toward others.
- The fields of classification, comparative anatomy, and comparative biochemistry have so many anomalies from evolutionary expectations as better to support the unrelatedness and separate origin of genera or families of organisms.
Rhymes
- business studies
- business suit
- business-suited
- business tourism
- business tourist
- business trip
- business union
- business unionism
- business unionist
- business unit
- businesswoman
- businessy
- busk
- busk-board
- busker
- buskin
- buskined
- busk point
- bus lane
- bus line
- busload
- busman
- bus master
- Busoni, Ferruccio
- bus operator