akin

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

~ to sth (formal) similar to: What he felt was more akin to pity than love.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

akinEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary akinEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary akinEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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