The sudden drop in temperature was unrelated to the earlier volcanic activity, puzzling the meteorologists who studied the data.
气温的突然下降与早先的火山活动无关，这让研究数据的气象学家感到困惑。
A longitudinal study tracking over three thousand adults found that regularly learning a new skill unrelated to one's career, such as a musical instrument or a foreign language, predicted greater reported life satisfaction in retirement more strongly than pre-retirement income level did.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
- Lonnie Johnson, a former NASA engineer, accidentally invented a powerful water gun design while working on an unrelated cooling system experiment in 1982.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
A short story's narrator repeatedly interrupts the main plot with brief tangents about unrelated childhood memories, tangents that only in the story's final page turn out to explain the narrator's puzzling reluctance to trust the story's other characters.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “unrelated”?
C — Not connected or related. “unrelated” means not connected or related.
Which word means “not connected or related”?
D — unrelated. “unrelated” means not connected or related.
unrelated — not connected or related. In Chinese: 无关的.
unrelated is pronounced /ˌʌnrɪˈleɪtɪd/.
The sudden drop in temperature was unrelated to the earlier volcanic activity, puzzling the meteorologists who studied the data. (气温的突然下降与早先的火山活动无关，这让研究数据的气象学家感到困惑。)
unconnected, distinct, separate — all close in meaning to unrelated (not connected or related).
related, connected — each the opposite of unrelated (not connected or related).
Yes. unrelated is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.