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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.
in comparison with somebody/something else; in relation to somebody/something. the position of the sun relative to the earth. The movements of the continents relative to each other can be measured. The company employs too many people relative to the size of its business.
10 meanings: 1. having meaning or significance only in relation to something else; not absolute 2. (of a scientific quantity).... Click for more definitions.
1. a. A person related to another by heredity, adoption, or marriage. b. A species or other taxon that shares a common ancestor, usually a relatively recent ancestor, with another: The jaguar is a relative of the lion. 2. Grammar A relative pronoun.
