Cognate Synonyms and Antonyms

kŏg'nāt'

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Synonyms for Cognate

blood-related
related by blood
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connate
Originating at the same time; related.
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of common descent
related in nature
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agnate
Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
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akin
Having similar qualities; similar
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allied
Of a similar nature; related:
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consanguine
Related by birth or "by blood," i.e. having close ancestors in common.
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consanguineous
Of the same lineage or origin; having a common ancestor.
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kindred
The definition of kindred is used to describe people or things that are similar or related to each other.
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affiliate
related in nature
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close
(Archaic) Concise; to the point.
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common
Having no special designation, status, or rank:
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similar
(Mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of operations of rotation, translation and scaling.
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universal
Common to all members of a group or class.
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cognate word
a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
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blood-relation
A person related to another by birth rather than by marriage or adoption
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blood-relative
A person who is related to another through a common ancestor, and not merely by marriage or adoption.
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sib
(Anthropology) A kinship group consisting of two or more lineages considered as being related, as by common descent from a mythic ancestor.
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analogous
Similar or alike in such a way as to permit the drawing of an analogy.
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Antonyms for Cognate

dissimilar
The definition of dissimilar is things that are different.
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disassociated
alike, associated
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unallied
Not allied.
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unalike
Of an unlike kind; different
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unlike
The definition of unlike is a person or thing that is different from another.
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Words Related to Cognate

alike
Having close resemblance; similar:
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subfields
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like
Having almost or exactly the same qualities, characteristics, etc.; similar; equal
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related
The definition of related is being associated with.
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kin
Related genetically or in the same family.
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Cognate Sentence Examples

  • Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the Ghegs, or northern, and the Tosks, or southern, Albanians.

  • Several fraternities - old gilds or new companies, with their respective cognate or heterogeneous branches of industry and trade - were fused into one body.

  • Other authorities suggest that it is going much too far to deny the existence of religion altogether, and instance as proof of the divinity of the supra-normal anthropomorphic beings of the Baiame class, the fact that the Yuin and cognate tribes dance around the image of Daramulun (their equivalent of Baiame) and the medicine men " invocate his name."

  • The fourth region comprised all the Samnites (except the Hirpini), together with the Sabines and the cognate tribes of the Frentani, Marrucini, Marsi, Peligni, Vestini and Aequiculi.

  • But it is a cognate Law.

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