Relationship Vocabulary

Here's a breakdown of vocabulary related to relationships, covering various aspects:

Types of Relationships

• Family: mother, father, sibling (brother, sister), grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin
• Friends: acquaintance, friend, close friend, best friend, platonic friend
• Romantic: partner, spouse (husband, wife), girlfriend, boyfriend, fiancé(e), significant other
• Other: colleague, classmate, neighbor

Describing Relationships

• Positive: close, strong, healthy, supportive, loving, caring, affectionate, trusting, honest
• Negative: toxic, abusive, strained, distant, dysfunctional, rocky, complicated
• Neutral: casual, platonic, professional, acquaintance

Actions and Events

• Starting a relationship: meet, get to know, date, fall in love, get engaged, get married
• Maintaining a relationship: communicate, compromise, support, trust, spend time together, show affection
• Ending a relationship: break up, divorce, separate, go through a breakup
• Other: flirt, propose, cheat, argue, fight, make up

Phrasal Verbs

• Get on (with): to have a good relationship
• Get to know: to become familiar with someone
• Hit it off: to quickly become friends
• Fall out (with): to have a disagreement and stop being friends
• Keep in touch: to stay in contact
• Lose touch: to stop communicating

Idioms

• Love at first sight: to fall in love immediately upon meeting someone
• Soulmates: two people who are perfectly compatible
• Tied the knot: got married
• See eye to eye: to agree on a subject
• Have a lot in common: to share similar interests

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