1. Being connected either logically, 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";
   - related to
    
2. Connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage
   "The two families became related through the marriage of their children"

1. Make a logical or causal connection
   "I cannot relate these events at all";
   - associate, tie in, link, colligate, link up, connect
    
2. Be relevant to
   "There were lots of questions relating to her talk";
   - refer, pertain, concern, bear on, touch, touch on, have to do with
    
3. Give an account of; narrate
   "The witness related the events"
    
4. Be in a relationship with
   "How are these two observations related?";
   - interrelate
    
5. Interact with and have or form some kind of relationship
   "She relates well to her peers"
    
6. Understand or empathize with
   "I really relate to what you're going through"

See also: affiliated, affinal, affine, age-related, agnate, agnatic [rare], akin, allied, attached, blood-related, bound up, cognate, collateral, connate, connected, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, coreferent, correlate, correlated, correlative, corresponding, descendent, direct, enate [technical], enatic [rare], indirect, kin, kindred, lineal, maternal, paternal, side by side

Type of: be, cerebrate, cogitate, exist, interact, narrate, recite, recount, retail[2], tell, think

Antonym: unrelated

Encyclopedia: Related