Antonyms for relating


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ri-leyt
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈleɪt


Definition of relating

Origin :
  • 1520s, "to recount, tell," from Middle French relater "refer, report" (14c.) and directly from Latin relatus, used as past participle of referre "bring back, bear back" (see refer), from re- "back, again" + latus (see oblate (n.)).
  • Meaning "stand in some relation; have reference or respect" is from 1640s; transitive sense of "bring (something) into relation with (something else)" is from 1690s. Meaning "to establish a relation between" is from 1771. Sense of "to feel connected or sympathetic to" is attested from 1950, originally in psychology jargon. Related: Related; relating.
  • verb give an account of
  • verb correlate, pertain
Example sentences :
  • He had been relating a thrilling adventure with a man-eating tiger.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • A most important ruling of the commission is that relating to the pass abuse.
  • Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
  • This was cruelty so marked that I could not refrain from relating it.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
  • They were like detached chapters of the story she had just been relating.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • As in the case of other laws, let us have a preamble, relating to all this class of crime.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • He was relating to the group about him the details of that disaster.
  • Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
  • “I am not able to find any provision in the will relating to that,” he answered.
  • Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • Not the least important information was that relating to punishments of the past.
  • Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
  • “Oh hang it,” he exclaimed—in no logical connection with what he had been relating to me.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • This occurrence took not more time than I have spent in relating it.
  • Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II) » by Edmund Downey

Synonyms for relating

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