1. Adjective
Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
2. Adjective
Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
3. Adjective
Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
4. Adjective
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. Noun
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. Noun
A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
7. Noun
A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
8. Noun
a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
9. Adjective
estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
Vocabulary classified under Spelling and grammar
10. Noun
an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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