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Relative   /rˈɛlətɪv/   Listen
Relative

adjective
1.
Estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete.  Synonym: comparative.  Antonym: absolute.
2.
Properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by 'to'.  Synonym: proportional.  "Earnings relative to production"
noun
1.
A person related by blood or marriage.  Synonym: relation.  "He has distant relations back in New Jersey"
2.
An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus).  Synonyms: congenator, congener, congeneric.



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"Relative" Quotes from Famous Books



... conjunctive (sentence), also coition; Al-Mausl the conjoined, a grammatical term for relative pronoun or particle. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton

... who is fit for the office of President in these times should be one who knows how to advance, an art which General McClellan has never learned. He must be one who comprehends that three years of war have made vast changes in the relative values of things. He must be one who feels to the very marrow of his bones that this is a war, not to conserve the forms, but the essence, of free institutions. He must be willing to sacrifice everything to the single ...
— The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V - Political Essays • James Russell Lowell

... some performances so entirely out of the ordinary course of events as to institute (sic) inquiry relative to ...
— Modern Mythology • Andrew Lang

... chargers' hoofs; Paris hath yielded to her conquering arms, And with the ancient crown of Dagobert Adorns the scion of a foreign race. Our king's descendant, disinherited, Must steal in secret through his own domain; While his first peer and nearest relative Contends against him in the hostile ranks; Ay, his unnatural mother leads them on. Around us towns and peaceful hamlets burn. Near and more near the devastating fire Rolls toward these vales, which ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... curved. They grow in clusters of from three to six or seven and become pendulous as they increase in weight. This species is nearly related to the sugar pine and, though not half so tall, it suggests its noble relative in the way that it extends its long branches in general habit. It is first met on the upper margin of the silver fir zone, singly, in what appears as chance situations without making much impression on the general forest. Continuing up through the forests of the two-leaved pine it begins to ...
— The Yosemite • John Muir


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