relative
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Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
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- • Common vocabulary word
noun
1. Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
"Why do my relatives always talk about sex?"
2. A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
adjective
1. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
2. (of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
"The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg."
3. (grammar) That relates to an antecedent.
4. Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
5. Relevant; pertinent; related.
"relative to your earlier point about taxes, ..."
6. Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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