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Definition of Relative

Relative Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute. Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. 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. One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that". Related Definitions: Absolute, Admit, Affinity, Allied, An, And, Another, Antecedent, Any, Arising, As, Blood, By, Called, Characterizing, Connected, Connection, Considered, Directly, Else, Expressing, From, Having, Identify, In, Indicating, Is, Kinsman, Kinswoman, Natural, Not, Object, Of, One, Or, Other, Person, Pertaining, Phrase, Pronoun, Reason, Reference, Referring, Relation, Relative, Respecting, Resulting, Some, Something, Standing, Strictly, Subject, Term, That, The, Their, To, Transition, Two, Which, Who, With, Word

Relative Quotations Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency. John W. Snow It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. Plato Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Aristotle Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. Bertrand Russell

Relative Translations relative in Dutch is verwant, familielid relative in Finnish is suhteellinen, sukulainen relative in French is parent, relatif, parente relative in German is relativ relative in Italian is parente, relativo, conggiunto relative in Portuguese is parente, relativo relative in Spanish is familiar, pariente, deuodo, deudo, relativo

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