akin

[ uh-kin ]

/ əˈkɪn /

of kin; related by blood (usually used predicatively): cousins who were too closely akin for marriage.

allied by nature; having the same properties: Something akin to vertigo was troubling her.

having or showing an affinity; kindred: They are emotionally but not intellectually akin.

Origin of akin

First recorded in 1580–90; see origin at a-², kin

2 cognate; similar, analogous, comparable, parallel.

But Huckabee (akin to Elizabeth Warren on the left) is like an ice cream sundae.

The Devil in Mike Huckabee |Dean Obeidallah |January 6, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Would that kind of publication be akin today to having a campaign blog or Twitter feed?

What Lincoln Could Teach Fox News |Scott Porch |November 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I can appreciate the perspective that my experience is akin to visiting a human zoo.

Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison |Jason Batansky |October 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Attending a Mile High event is akin to being abruptly thrown into an ongoing play and having to adjust your behavior accordingly.

Join The Mile High (Dining) Club |Allison McNearney |September 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

But on the French left — riven by ideological splits from competing centuries — that job is akin to herding cats.

This Scary-Smart New Minister of Economy Might Just Turn France Around |Tracy McNicoll |August 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
This conception is akin to that of potential, except that it is given to us directly by our sense of heat.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 |Various
Akin to this is fashionably slangy conversation concerning the latest thing in books, magazine articles, trivial plays.

A Girl's Student Days and After |Jeannette Marks
For are we not, in some degree, akin to the angels, whose task it is to bring the guilty to a better mind?

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life |Honore de Balzac
A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind.

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources |James Wood
Or that his nature, being such as we have delineated, is akin to the highest good?

The Republic |Plato

akin

/ (əˈkɪn) /

related by blood; of the same kin

(often foll by to) having similar characteristics, properties, etc