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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

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, come to, 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"

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

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

Antonym: unrelated

Encyclopedia: Related