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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unrelated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
seemingly unrelated (=not seeming to be connected or related at all)
▪ The police were investigating three seemingly unrelated murders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
apparently
▪ There was no clear policy on this matter, only a series of apparently unrelated initiatives.
completely
▪ There are leaders and opinion makers on the staff whose power of influence is completely unrelated to their official status.
▪ In fact, many of the non-anti-social symptoms in childhood seemed completely unrelated to adult psychiatric status.
quite
▪ Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying.
▪ The signalling properties of the polarizing region are now known to be quite unrelated to cell death which is a separate process.
▪ For both of them the landscape in which they now stood was quite unrelated to any of this.
▪ But in many cases the castle is quite unrelated to other castles.
▪ I had another reason as well, though quite unrelated to painting.
▪ The other appeared quite unrelated to it.
▪ Fortunately another quite unrelated series of compounds was found to alleviate depression.
▪ Deflection eye-spots are found in a wide variety of quite unrelated species.
seemingly
▪ Changes to any part of the system may make it necessary to change other seemingly unrelated components.
▪ Three seemingly unrelated items came together in a way...
totally
▪ The nature of an object can not be established through a means of knowledge totally unrelated to it.
▪ Some relate this to the security of a university appointment, with career steps usually totally unrelated to research achievement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blue-eyed cats are deaf because those at first sight unrelated characters share an embryonic pathway.
▪ Despite the economic problems and some unrelated political problems of the 1960s, the country remained a relatively prosperous one.
▪ Eighty unrelated controls, 61 patients with gastric ulcer, and 57 patients with duodenal ulcer were studied.
▪ Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying.
▪ Many consultancies welcome work experience in a field unrelated to public relations.
▪ She is also remembered because she was painted by Velázquez, although this is not unrelated to the family tree.
▪ The technique is really one of creating harmony in two separate and unrelated layers.
▪ These 2500 season seats will offer those possessing them the option to hold the same seat for unrelated events.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unrelated

1660s, "not akin," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of relate (v.). Meaning "not in any relationship" is attested from 1660s; that of "not told" is from 1764.

Wiktionary
unrelated

a. 1 not connected or associated 2 not related by kinship

WordNet
unrelated
  1. adj. not connected or associated [ant: related]

  2. not connected by kinship [ant: related]

Wikipedia
Unrelated

Unrelated is a 2007 British drama film written and directed by Joanna Hogg, starring Kathryn Worth, Tom Hiddleston, Mary Roscoe, David Rintoul, Emma Hiddleston and Henry Lloyd-Hughes. It was released in the US on 20 February 2008.

Usage examples of "unrelated".

One allosteric enzyme, working by itself, is already a formidable machine, reactively linking unrelated substances.

I splash my face and take a look in the mirror and I see that my reflection is misproportioned, its movements unrelated to my own.

By monitoring bodily fluids such as blood, researchers discovered that the way monozygotic twins respond physiologically to a drug is remarkably similar, whereas two unrelated people generally have quite different responses.

Instantly the world hazed around her, sparks and shadow overwriting her vision, the ghost of new and unrelated sensations tingling along her nerves.

In the cities, the guilds used a hodgepodge of gills and pennyweights and yards, mostly unrelated except that a pint of milk was supposed to weigh a pound.

Half a dozen workers at the Mitcham farm were killed on Tuesday, in a poisoning incident wholly unrelated to Rackham Perfumeries, but it meant police enquiries, and where was he at the time?

Trent found himself backtracking, answering questions about subjects he had already lied about, fielding questions about other almost entirely unrelated subjects, reanswering rephrased questions he had already lied about twice.

On the so-called translator is forced the job of taking unrelated syllables and grouping them into what looks to him to be intelligible words, substituting then such of the Chinese ideographs necessary to pin it down, and then going ahead with the translation, which is a much more difficult job than simple translation.

They leave the separate branches of the course isolated and unconnected, an aggregation of unrelated thought complexes.

But were there depths in this unmemoried man, depths of an abiding feeling and thinking, or had he been reduced to a sort of Humean drivel, a mere succession of unrelated impressions and events?

It falls into tiny, seemingly unrelated and almost unrelatable pieces.

The disconnect had been so profound that Bashir clearly remembered his early, untransformed self not even attempting to understand what was going on: Naomi was simply uttering random noises, and the squiggles above the holoboard were only unrelated doodles.

His inability to apply symmetry of position to the unrelated alphabets gave it a certain amount of slack, but he regarded it as essentially sound.

This is necessary not only to provide order to what otherwise would be a series of unrelated archeological site and artifact descriptions, but also to determine which of those reports and descriptions are relevant to the prehistory during this time period.

Dorsett household the buttonhook had uses unrelated to the buttoning of shoes.