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1. (n.) relative
a person who is connected with another by blood or marriage.
2. relative
something having, or standing in, some relation to something else.
3. relative
something dependent upon external conditions for its specific nature, size, etc.
4. relative
a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb.
5. (adj.) relative
considered in relation to something else; comparative:
the relative merits of gas and electric heating.
6. relative
existing or having its specific nature only by relation to something else; not absolute or independent:
Happiness is relative.
7. relative
having relation or connection.
8. relative
having reference; relevant; pertinent (usu. fol. by to):
the facts relative to the case.
9. relative
correspondent; proportionate.
10. relative
depending for significance upon something else:
“Better” is a relative term.
11. relative
of or designating a word that introduces a subordinate clause and refers to an expressed or implied element of the principal clause: the relative pronoun who in “That was the woman who called”; the relative adverb where
in “This is the house where I was born.”
12. relative
(of a musical key) having the same key signature as another key:
a relative minor.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME relatif (n.) (< MF) < LL relātīvus (adj.); see relate , -ive)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) relative, relation
a person related by blood or marriage
"police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
2. (adj) relative, congener, congenator, congeneric
an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
3. (adj) relative, comparative
estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
"a relative stranger"
4. (adj) proportional, relative
properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'
"the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"
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1. (noun) relative
sb who is a member of your family; = relation
a distant/close relative; My relatives are visiting.
2. (adjective) relative
compared to sth else
refugees escaping to relative safety across the border
3. relative
relative to
compared with
The crop requires little fertilizer relative to corn.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) relative
having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject
2. (adj) relative
arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute
3. (adj) relative
indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun
4. (adj) relative
characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other
5. (noun) relative
one who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation
6. (noun) relative
a person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman
7. (noun) relative
a relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that"
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The Standard Electrical Dictionary |
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1. relative
Indicating the relation between two or more things without reference to absolute value of any one of them. Thus one lamp may be of relatively double resistance compared to another, but this states nothing of the resistance in ohms of either lamp.
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Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms |
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1. relative
The bearing of a target measured in the horizontal from the bow of one
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Sense: a member of one's family; a relation
All his relatives attended the funeral.
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 Afrikaans: familielede |
 Arabic: أحد الأقْرِباء، أحد أفراد |
 Bulgarian: роднина |
 Brazilian: parente |
 Czech: příbuzný, -á |
 German: der/die Verwandte |
 Danish: pårørende |
 Greek: συγγενής |
 Spanish: pariente |
 Estonian: sugulane |
 Farsi: خویشاوند؛ قوم و خوییش |
 Finnish: sukulainen |
 French: parent, parente |
 Hebrew: קָרוֹב מִשפָּחָה |
 Hindi: रिश्तेदार |
 Croatian: rođak |
 Hungarian: rokon |
 Indonesian: keluarga |
 Icelandic: skyldmenni |
 Italian: parente |
 Japanese: 親類 |
 Korean: 친척 |
 Lithuanian: giminė |
 Latvian: radinieks |
 Malay: saudara |
 Dutch: familielid |
 Norwegian: slektning |
 Polish: krewny |
 Persian: خویشاوند؛ قوم و خوییش |
 Pashto: خپلوى، خيښى |
 Portuguese: parente |
 Romanian: rudă |
 Russian: родственник |
 Slovak: príbuzný, -á |
 Slovenian: sorodnik |
 Serbian: rođaci |
 Swedish: släkting |
 Thai: เครือญาติ |
 Turkish: akraba |
 Taiwanese: 親戚 |
 Ukrainian: родич, родичка |
 Urdu: رشتے دار |
 Vietnamese: họ hàng |
 Chinese: 亲戚 |
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