pertaining
Having to do
Pertaining means relating or belonging to something.
It appears almost exclusively in the phrase pertaining to: laws pertaining to immigration, documents pertaining to the case.
The word is formal and slightly stiff—in casual speech, people say about or related to instead.
Related to the topic
- appositeStrikingly suitable or relevant
- materialPhysical matter; pertinent
- salientNotably prominent
- relevantApplying to the topic
applicable · appropriate · fitting · suitable · proper · connected · significant · meaningful
Connected by blood or nature
- affiliatedFormally linked or connected
- connectedJoined to another
- correlatedMutually related statistically
- interrelatedLinked by mutual influence
linked · akin · allied · associated · attached · bound · joined · tied
germane
Related to the topic
relevant · applicable · appropriate · fitting · suitable · proper · connected · significant · meaningful · consequential
related
Connected by blood or nature
- affiliatedFormally linked or connected
- connectedJoined to another
- correlatedMutually related statistically
interrelated · linked · akin · allied · associated · attached · bound · joined · tied · coupled
appropriate
Suited to circumstance
apt · befitting · meet · felicitous · seemly · becoming · right · correct · due · congruent
- Relatinglinking, connecting, associating, correlating, referencing
- formal wordshereby, herein, thereof, thereby, whereby
pertainingdisconnected
Separated from a source
beside the point · unrelated · irrelevant · unconnected · extraneous
- pertaining toRelating to a subject
pertinent, impertinent, pertain, impertinence, pertinacious, pertinacity, appertain, pertinence, pertains