blood ties
Relatives by birth
Blood ties are family relationships based on biological descent rather than marriage, adoption, or choice.
The phrase emphasizes genetic connection as a bond: Despite years of estrangement, blood ties brought them back together.
Blood ties often carry connotations of loyalty and obligation that transcend circumstance—the idea that family bonds are deeper and more binding than other relationships.
- family loyaltyCommitment to one's relatives
- kinshipState of being related
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- siblingsFellow offspring
- lineageDescent from progenitors
next of kin · obligation · genetics · belonging · consanguinity · adoption · descendants · tradition · bloodline · clan · genealogy · born into · love · family bond · heredity · inheritance · trust · unity
- bondsbond, corporate bond, corporate bonds, government bond, municipal bond
- connectionslink, links, connect, connection, tie
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- family bondslove, parent-child bond, trust, sibling bond, loyalty
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- family dramafamily bonds, sibling rivalry, family reunion, kinship, family secret
blood tieschosen family
Intentionally formed kinship network
marriage · adopted family · found family · in-laws · mentorship
blood tiesestrangement
Emotional separation between people
alienation · strangers · disconnection · severance · unrelated