relative

Plural

relatives

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

   • We've been discussing the relative merits of various methods of transportation.
   • For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

2. 2.Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

   • The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/index.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

3. 3.Depending on an antecedent; comparative.

   • The words “big” and “small” are relative.

4. 4.Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.

Adverb

Adverb

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A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

1. 1.Alternative form of relatively.

   • In 1924 it moved to a commonious campus at Stockton. Like other Californian colleges, however, it decided to remain a relative small institution.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.

   • The eldest son was usually given the name of his paternal grandfather, later children those of other relatives.
   • In 2008, the leader of a pro-government union accused Flores of nepotism after she reportedly hired at least 40 relatives to work within the National Assembly.

2. 2.Something kindred or related to something else.

3. 3.A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

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Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Uncommon

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare

Antonyms

• absolute

Word family

• relate
• relatively