RELATIVE

relative

Noun

  1. Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
    Why do my relatives always talk about sex?
  2. A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

Adjective

  1. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
  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/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.
  3. That relates to an antecedent.
  4. Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
  5. Relevant; pertinent; related.
    relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...
  6. Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.


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