different between devoted vs related

English

Etymology

From devote +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??v??t?d/

Verb

devoted

1. simple past tense and past participle of devote

Adjective

devoted (comparative more devoted, superlative most devoted)

1. Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
2. Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something.

   Bob and Sara are devoted to their children.

3. Zealous; characterized by devotion.
4. (obsolete) Cursed; doomed.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 31:

     The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction […].

   • 1828, Washington Irving, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, book 1:

     They had recently considered themselves devoted men, hurrying forwards to destruction; they now looked upon themselves as favorites of fortune, and gave themselves up to the most unbounded joy.

Derived terms

• devotedly
• devotedness

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???le?t?d/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???le?t?d/
• Hyphenation: re?lated

Adjective

related (comparative more related, superlative most related)

1. Standing in relation or connection.

2. Being a relative of.

3. Narrated; told.
4. (not comparable, music) Synonym of relative.
5. (mathematics) Fulfilling a relation.
6. (not comparable, in combination) Having a relationship with the thing named

Hyponyms

Translations

Verb

related

1. simple past tense and past participle of relate

See also

• relation
• relationship
• interrelate
• interrelated

Anagrams

• Aldrete, alerted, altered, redealt, treadle