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# unrelated

«unrelated» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unrelated things have no link or connection with each other** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unrelated)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unrelated things have no link or connection with each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/#m1)

2) Unrelated people are not part of the same family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science and maths to say two facts or numbers do not affect each other; in everyday talk to change topic («on an unrelated note»); in stories for strangers who look alike.

### examples

- My headache is unrelated to the test; I just slept badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/#x1)
- The two fires were unrelated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/#x2)
- Liam and Leo share a surname but are unrelated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/#x3)
- On an unrelated note, who wants pizza? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/#x4)
- Ignore the unrelated information in the word problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/#x5)
- The teacher said the question was unrelated to today's lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/#x6)

### note

Often followed by «to»: unrelated to something. In maths word problems, unrelated numbers are distractors: do not use them in the sum.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unrelated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unrelated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.