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RELATIVE definition: 1. a member of your family: 2. being judged or measured in comparison with something else: 3…. Learn more.
Relative definition: a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.. See examples of RELATIVE used in a sentence.
1. : a word referring grammatically to an antecedent. 2. : a thing having a relation to or connection with or necessary dependence on another thing. 3. a. : a person connected with another by blood or affinity. b. : an animal or plant related to another by common descent. 4. : a relative term. relative. 2 of 2. adjective. 1.
A relative is a person who is part of your family. Parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, nieces and nephews — they're all relatives. A relative can be connected to your family through blood or by marriage. If you are a child or grandchild of Maria's, for example, you are a blood relative of her family.
RELATIVE definition: 1. a member of your family: 2. compared to other similar things or people: 3. when compared to…. Learn more.
Noun. Idiom. Filter. adjective. Related each to the other; dependent upon or referring to each other. To stay in the same relative positions. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Regarded in relation to something else; comparative. Living in relative comfort. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Pertinent; relevant.
adjective. OPAL W. /ˈrelətɪv/ Idioms. considered and judged by being compared with something else. You must consider the relative merits of the two plans. We need to assess the relative importance of each of these factors. We need to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of each system. Definitions on the go.
noting or pertaining to a word that introduces a subordinate clause of which it is, or is a part of, the subject or predicate and that refers to an expressed or implied element of the principal clause (the antecedent), as the relative pronoun who in He's the man who saw you or the relative adverb where in This is the house where she was born
Definition of relative noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adj. considered or measured in relation to something else; comparative:[ before a noun] the relative merits of gas and electric heating. existing or having meaning only by relation to something else: Standards of good or bad are relative to the society in which one lives.
