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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relationships

"Care must build and not break the relationships that young people need, and this must be the new North Star," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“I was seeking the wise and healthy way to work through my relationships so I could move forward,” she adds.

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

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

He found, for instance, that among 605 notable men who lived between 1453 and 1853, there were 102 familial relationships: one in six of all accomplished men were apparently related.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee