無縁

Meanings

1. No-adjective, Na-adjective, Noun

   unrelated; unconnected; irrelevant; indifferent; divorced from; having nothing to do with one; being foreign to one

2. No-adjective, Noun

   without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives
3. unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha

• この金属きんぞくは錆さびとは無縁むえんです。

  This metal is free of rust.

• ここ10年ねん、病気びょうきとは無縁むえんだ。

  I haven't been sick for the past ten years.

• 彼かれはその事件じけんとまったく無縁むえんではない。

  He is involved in the case a little.

• 当時とうじ、貧乏びんぼうは彼かれらにとっては無縁むえんなものと思おもわれた。

  Poverty seemed to have nothing to do with them in those days.

• 現代げんだいの日本にほんで錬金術れんきんじゅつといえば、比喩的ひゆてきにしか使つかわれない。モラルや羞恥心しゅうちしんと無縁むえんの政治屋せいじやや宗教家しゅうきょうかが、不正ふせいな手段しゅだんでカネもうけをするときに。

  In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.