How to say "unrelated" in Japanese

• 無縁むえんCommon
  no-adjective, na-adjectiveCovers 'unrelated' as lacking a bond or affinity with something, often with a personal or fated coloring. Typical context: describing someone whose life has nothing to do with sports, art, or technology.
  当時とうじ、貧乏びんぼうは彼かれらにとっては無縁むえんなものと思おもわれた。↗

  Poverty seemed to have nothing to do with them in those days.
• 無関係むかんけいCommon
  na-adjective, no-adjectiveThe straightforward word for 'unrelated': it states that two things simply have no connection. Typical context: asserting in an argument or explanation that one event, fact, or person has nothing to do with another.
  私はその件けんとは無関係むかんけいだ。↗

  I have no connection to the matter.

Choose 無関係 to state flatly that two things have no connection; choose 無縁 when 'unrelated' means lacking any bond with something, as when a person is a stranger to an activity.

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• 無縁むえんunrelated
• 無関係むかんけいunrelated
• 関係がないかんけいがないunrelated
• 関係ないかんけいないunrelated
• 縁のないえんのないunrelated
• 無用むようnot on business
• あらぬdifferent