relative

Definitions

1. 1adjective

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

2. 2adjective

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

3. 3adjective

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

4. 4adjective

   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. 5noun

   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. 6noun

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

7. 7noun

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

8. 8noun

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

   Synonyms

   congenatorcongenercongeneric
9. 9noun

   a person related by blood or marriage

   "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"

   "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

   Synonyms

   relation
10. 10adjective

    estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

    "a relative stranger"

    Synonyms

    comparative
11. 11adjective

    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"

    Synonyms

    proportional