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List of meaning for relative

a family member connected

relative, relation(noun)

a person related by blood or marriage

"police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

relative, congener, congenator, congeneric(adj)

an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

relative, comparative(adj)

estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

"a relative stranger"

proportional, relative(adj)

properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'

"the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"

being such only when compared to something else

after being crammed into a one-bedroom apartment, they lived in relative comfort in a two-bedroom house

having to do with the matter at hand

I don't need the whole story, just the details that are relative to the case

a person connected with another by blood or marriage

it's always fun to see all your relatives at a big family gathering

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