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Relative

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

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Proportionate 84% connected

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.

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Proportionate 84% connected

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.

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Relational 84% connected

Having relation or kindred; related.

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Relational 84% connected

Having relation or kindred; related.

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Agnate 76% connected

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

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Ancestor 76% connected

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

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Antecedent 76% connected

Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

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Ascendant 76% connected

Ascent; height; elevation.

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Ascendent 76% connected

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.

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Cognate 76% connected

Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.

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Cousin 76% connected

One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

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Cousin-german 76% connected

A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.

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Descendant 76% connected

Descendent.

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Descendent 76% connected

Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.

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Enate 76% connected

Growing out.

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Family 76% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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kin 76% connected

A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

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Kinsman 76% connected

A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.

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Kinswoman 76% connected

A female relative.

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Mate 76% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

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Offspring 76% connected

The act of production; generation.

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Partner 76% connected

One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b)…

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Progeny 76% connected

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

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Root 76% connected

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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Sib 76% connected

A blood relation.

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Spouse 76% connected

A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

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Being 76% connected

of Be

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Individual 76% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Mortal 76% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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Organism 76% connected

Organic structure; organization.

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Somebody 76% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Compare 74% connected

To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to b…

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Compare 74% connected

To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to b…

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Relationship 74% connected

The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

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Relationship 74% connected

The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

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Relativity 74% connected

The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject.

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Relativity 74% connected

The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject.

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Containing group 4

Clan 70% connected

A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan…

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kin 70% connected

A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

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Kindred 70% connected

Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

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Tribe 70% connected

A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, desc…

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Comparative 92% connected

Of or pertaining to comparison.

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Congener 92% connected

A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.

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Congeneric 92% connected

Alt. of Congenerical

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Proportional 92% connected

Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional.

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Relation 92% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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