adjective
- Similar in quality or character.
- usage: "a feeling akin to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related to the collector"
- synonyms: kindred
- Related by blood.
- synonyms: blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, kin
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