kindred — OAT

kindred

noun

1 he owed his popularity to his mother's kindred:

family, relatives, relations, kin, family members, connections, kith and kin, one's own flesh and blood, clan, tribe, house, lineage;

informal folks;

dated people;

formal kinsfolk, kinsmen/kinswomen.

2 ties of kindred:

kinship, family ties, being related, relationship, relatedness, blood relationship, ties of blood, consanguinity, common ancestry, common lineage.

adjective

1 the center collects works on industrial relations and kindred subjects:

related, allied, connected, closely connected/related, comparable, similar, like, alike, parallel, associated, corresponding, cognate, analogous, interconnected, affiliated.

▷antonyms unrelated.

2 she was glad to find a kindred spirit to confide in:

like-minded, sympathetic, in sympathy, in harmony, in agreement, in tune, of one mind, akin, similar, like, congenial, compatible, understanding, agreeable;

informal on the same wavelength.

▷antonyms uncongenial, unsympathetic, alien.