relative meaning

Adjective: relative  relutiv

1. Estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
   "a relative stranger"
   - comparative 
2. Properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by 'to'
   "earnings relative to production"
   - proportional

Noun: relative  relutiv

1. A person related by blood or marriage
   "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"
   - relation, flesh and blood 
2. An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
   - congener, congenator, congeneric

Derived forms: relatives

See also: proportionate, relational, relativity

Type of: being, individual, mortal, organism, person, somebody, someone, soul

Antonym: absolute

Part of: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe

Encyclopedia: Relative

[Computer]
Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).

• relative to:    [American idiom]in ...
• blood relative:    Noun: blood relati ...
• near relative:    n. [c]a parent, br ...

Examples

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1. a distant relative is not as good as a near neighbour.
2. he discriminates in favour of his relatives.
3. once you were nearly the victim of a near relative.
4. he had neither relatives nor friends there.
5. what are the relative merits of the two ？