Antonyms of adj unrelated

2 senses of unrelated

Sense 1
unrelated (vs. related) -- (lacking a logical or causal relation)

related (vs. unrelated), 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")
        => affiliated, attached, connected -- (being joined in close association; "affiliated clubs"; "all art schools whether independent or attached to universities")
        => age-related -- (changing (increasing or decreasing) as an individual's age increases)
        => bound up -- (closely or inseparably connected or associated with; "his career is bound up with the fortunes of the enterprise")
        => cognate -- (having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages")
        => connate, cognate -- (related in nature; "connate qualities")
        => coreferent -- (related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction; "two expressions are coreferent if they denote the same object or individual")
        => correlative, correlate, correlated -- (mutually related)
        => corresponding -- (accompanying; "all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities")
        => side by side -- (closely related or associated; "a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side")

Sense 2
unrelated (vs. related) -- (not connected by kinship)

related (vs. unrelated) -- (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)
        => affinal, affine -- ((anthropology) related by marriage)
        => agnate, agnatic, paternal -- (related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt")
        => akin (predicate), blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, kin (predicate) -- (related by blood)
        => allied -- (related by common characteristics or ancestry; "allied species"; "allied studies")
        => descendant, descendent -- (proceeding by descent from an ancestor; "descendent gene")
        => enate, enatic, maternal (predicate) -- (related on the mother's side; "my maternal grandmother")
        => kindred -- (related by blood or marriage; "kindred clans")

Similarity of adj unrelated

2 senses of unrelated

Sense 1
unrelated (vs. related) -- (lacking a logical or causal relation)
       => misrelated -- (mistakenly related)
       => orthogonal -- (statistically unrelated)
       => uncorrelated -- (not varying together)

Sense 2
unrelated (vs. related) -- (not connected by kinship)
       => unconnected -- (not connected by birth or family)

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