relative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin relātīvus, from Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear or carry”). By surface analysis, relate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: rel.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: relatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rel.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We've been discussing the relative merits of various methods of transportation.
I once knew a case—possibly I read of it—where a pack of cards lay on the floor. It was a murder case and the guilt or innocence of an accused man depended on the relative positions of the fifty-first and fifty-second cards.
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.
It is thought that the autistic mind is more intimately connected with objective reality via its external sensory focus on reality and its superior understanding of physical causality, relative to neurotypical persons (Baron-Cohen et al. 1999; Paganini and Gaido 2013) and is therefore less susceptible to supernatural experiences or explanations.
gloss: Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Depending on an antecedent; comparative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The words “big” and “small” are relative.
gloss: Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relevant; pertinent; related.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
rare
examples: relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...
The Spirit that I haue ſeene
May be the Diuell, and the Diuel hath power
T'aſſume a pleaſing ſhape, yea and perhaps
Out of my Weakneſſe, and my Melancholly,
As he is very potent with ſuch Spirits,
Abuſes me to damne me. Ile haue grounds
More Relatiue then this: The play's the thing,
Wherein Ile catch the Conſcience of the King.
gloss: Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Something kindred or related to something else.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
pos: noun
Synonyms: comparative
conditional
limited
relative
relation
sib
Antonyms: absolute
unlimited
Related words: correlative
irrelative
refer
-al
-ship
relativist
relativistic
relativization
relativize
relate
relation
relativism
relativity
near relative
referral
relationship
aunt
brother
cousin
father
godparent
grandchild
granddaughter
grandson
great-grandchild
great-grandparent
in-law
mother
nephew
niece
parent
sister
stepdaughter
stepson
uncle
related
grand-
step-
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Derived words: aliorelative
blood relative
ethnorelative
first-degree relative
it's all relative
linear relative
non-relative
oreille relative
relatival
relative address
relative adjective
relative adverb
relative atomic mass
relative bearing
relative bearing grease
relative clause
relative complement
r. pseudo-comp.
relative dating
relative density
relative direction
relative error
relative frequency
relative humidity
relative-in-law
relative key
relatively
relative majority
relativeness
relative permittivity
relative pin
relative pitch
relative pressure
relative pronoun
relative skewer
relative superlative
relative tense
relative topology
second-degree relative
storm-relative helicity
third-degree relative
transrelative
unrelative
rellie
relo
steprelative
step-relative
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