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unrelated

adjective

  1. not involved, connected
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English related English unrelated From un- + related.

  1. Not connected or associated.

    The holiday started with two unrelated mishaps.

    I was having lunch with Jim the other day, who's just had his first kid. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, there's a new cinema opened up in town.

  2. Not related by kinship.

    He had the same surname as me, but we were unrelated.