relative

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relative Definition

• (a) not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
• (n) a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
• (n) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
• (s) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to''; "punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"

relative Synonyms

• congenator
• congener
• proportional
• relation
• relative