[ US /ˈɹɛɫətɪv/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛlətˌɪv/ ]
NOUN
  1. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
  2. a person related by blood or marriage
    he has distant relations back in New Jersey
    police are searching for relatives of the deceased
ADJECTIVE
  1. estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
    a relative stranger
  2. properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'
    earnings relative to production
    the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime
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How To Use relative In A Sentence

  • Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
  • The fin's origin is relatively far behind the pelvic fin insertion.
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  • The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
  • Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
  • In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
  • Here in India, especially in relatively small cities like Dehra Doon, it feels like half magic a lot of the time and the only way to live through the muddles is to be determined to find them funny.
  • And survivors of the Rwandan genocide and the holocaust work to keep the memories of their relatives alive.
  • She visited her relatives in Castledermot on a yearly basis when her brother and sister were alive.
  • Norman Neal Williams had been a transient, they learned, an itinerant vitamin salesman with no known relatives. MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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