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adj. Having pertinence or relevance; connected or related.

adj. Considered in comparison with something else: the relative quiet of the suburbs.

adj. Dependent on or interconnected with something else; not absolute. See Synonyms at dependent.

adj. Grammar Referring to or qualifying an antecedent, as the pronoun who in the man who was on TV or that in the dictionary that I use.

adj. Music Having the same key signature. Used of major and minor scales and keys: A minor is the relative minor of C major.

n. One related by kinship, common origin, or marriage.

n. Something having a relation or connection to something else.

n. Grammar A relative pronoun.

adj. Relevant; pertinent; related.

adj. Connected to or depending on something else; not absolute; comparative.

adj. That relates to an antecedent.

adj. Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.

adj. Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

n. Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.

adj. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining.

adj. Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.

adj. Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent.

adj. 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.

n. A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.

n. A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent.

Having relation to or bearing on something; close in connection; pertinent; relevant; to the purpose.

Not absolute or existing by itself; considered as belonging to or respecting something else; depending on or incident to relation.

In grammar, referring to an antecedent; introducing a dependent clause that defines or describes or modifies something else in the sentence that is called the antecedent (because it usually, though by no means always, precedes the relative): thus, he who runs may read; he lay on the spot where he fell.

Not intelligible except in connection with something else; signifying a relation, without stating what the correlate is: thus, father, better, west, etc., are relative terms.

In music, having a close melodic or harmonic relation.

Same as specific gravity (which see. under gravity).

n. Something considered in its relation to something else; one of two things having a certain relation.

n. A person connected by blood or affinity; especially, one allied by blood; a kinsman or kinswoman; a relation.

n. In grammar, a relative word; a relative pronoun or adverb. See I., 3.

n. In logic, a relative term.

n. Synonyms Connection, etc. See relation.

n. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

adj. properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'

n. a person related by blood or marriage

adj. estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

"T.e philosopher P.T. Geach first broached the subject of relative identity and introduced the phrase ˜relative identity™."

proportionate    relational   

irrelevant    absolute   

being    organism   

comparative    kind    relative time    relative place    logic of relatives    relative term    relative enunciation    relative humidity    relative beauty    relative opposites   

relationship    relate    relativism    relation    relativity   

relative to   

referring    respecting    pertaining    relation    referential    pertinent    appertaining    apposite    apposite to    relevant   

comparative    equal    absolute    actual    overall    positive    pronoun    possessive    step    cabinet