relationships

NOUN

connection; friendship

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accord affair communication contact exchange liaison link marriage rapport relation tie

STRONG

affiliation affinity alliance analogy appositeness association bond conjunction consanguinity contingency correlation dependence dependency homogeneity hookup interconnection interrelation interrelationship kinship likeness nearness network parallel pertinence pertinency proportion ratio relativity relevance similarity tie-in tie-up

WEAK

consociation

Antonyms

STRONGEST

divorce

STRONG

antagonism difference disassociation disconnection dissimilarity disunion division imbalance opposition separation unlikeness

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Surprised, Sherlock pushed back, explaining that she had been working on her relationships and felt they were improving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The prime minister has headed to China, India and Saudi Arabia and made several stops in Europe seeking deals to expand Canada's economic relationships overseas.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

So seriously, in fact, that he's desperate to make amends for a lyric on the last Killers album, called In Another Life, that made some fans question their relationships.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Machine learning systems can search millions of biological data points for subtle relationships that may be difficult to detect using conventional approaches.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

As explained above, scholars cannot even agree on the basics, such as the existence of private property, nuclear families and monogamous relationships.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari