Relative

['relətɪv] or ['rɛlətɪv]

Definition

(noun.) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus).

(noun.) a person related by blood or marriage; 'police are searching for relatives of the deceased'; 'he has distant relations back in New Jersey'.

(adj.) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; 'a relative stranger' .

Edited by Davy--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

(a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.

(a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.

(a.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.

(n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".

Editor: Rudolf

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Referring (to something else), not absolute.

n. [1]. Relation, kinsman, connection.[2]. (Gram.) Relative pronoun.

Checked by Ives

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Referring_to, not_absolute

ANT:Absolute

Typist: Louis

Definition

adj. having relation: respecting: not absolute or existing by itself: considered as belonging to something else: (gram.) expressing relation.—n. that which has relation to something else: a relation: (gram.) a pronoun which relates to something before called its antecedent.—adj. Relatī′val (or Rel′atival).—adv. Rel′atively.—ns. Rel′ativeness Relativ′ity.—Relativity of human knowledge the doctrine that the nature and extent of our knowledge is determined not merely by the qualities of the objects known but necessarily by the conditions of our cognitive powers.

Typist: Nola

Examples

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