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US
/ˈɹɛɫətɪvɫi/
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[ UK /ɹˈɛlətˌɪvli/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛlətˌɪvli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a relative manner; by comparison to something else
the situation is relatively calm now
How To Use relatively 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.
- 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.
- Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course). GreenCine Daily
- No doubt all this is relatively important in its way, but I can't bring myself to get very interested in it.
- At a time when they were still singing soupy Victorian hymns in churches, this choir performed relatively modem music.
- I must admit to being a biased Observor here, as I do relatively poorly with the math elements of Economics, and I have attempted a writing career of expressing Economics in nonmathematical terms. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- And evidently this time apart allowed the two to approach their partnership rejuvenated and ready for some serious woodshedding, as they reportedly recorded dozens of tracks before pruning down to these relatively lean 14 songs.