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relative

adj
/ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/

Etymology

From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin relātīvus, from Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear or carry”). By surface analysis, relate + -ive.

  1. derived from relātus
  2. derived from relātīvus
  3. derived from relatif

Definitions

  1. Connected to or depending on something else

    Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

    • I once knew a case—possibly I read of it—where a pack of cards lay on the floor. It was a murder case and the guilt or innocence of an accused man depended on the relative positions of the fifty-first and fifty-second cards.
    • For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

  2. 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/index.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

  3. Depending on an antecedent

    Depending on an antecedent; comparative.

    • The words “big” and “small” are relative.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

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

    2. Relevant

      Relevant; pertinent; related.

      • relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...

    3. Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance

      Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.

    4. Alternative form of relatively.

      • In 1924 it moved to a commonious campus at Stockton. Like other Californian colleges, however, it decided to remain a relative small institution.
      • Mr. Schneebell. Instead of the relative small number of cases, you should phrase it probably differently. Professor Brazer. I accept that correction.

    5. Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption

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

      • The eldest son was usually given the name of his paternal grandfather, later children those of other relatives.
      • In 2008, the leader of a pro-government union accused Flores of nepotism after she reportedly hired at least 40 relatives to work within the National Assembly.

    6. Something kindred or related to something else.

    7. A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective,…

      A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

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Derived

aliorelative, blood relative, ethnorelative, first-degree relative, it's all relative, linear relative, non-relative, oreille relative, relatival, relative address, relative adjective, relative adverb, relative atomic mass, relative bearing, relative bearing grease, relative clause, relative complement, r. pseudo-comp., relative dating, relative density, relative error, relative frequency, relative humidity, relative-in-law, relative key, relatively, relative majority, relativeness, relative permittivity, relative pin, relative pitch, relative pressure, relative pronoun, relative skewer, relative superlative, relative tense, relative topology, second-degree relative, storm-relative helicity, third-degree relative · +6 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at relative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at relative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at relative

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA