Synonyms:
relative, comparative
Meaning: estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
Synonyms:
proportional, relative
Meaning: 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"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
relative, relation
Meaning: a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
Synonyms:
relative, congener, congenator, congeneric
Meaning: an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
Usage examples
"A relative of hers.
Is this man a relative?"
"This clever person is your relative, then?"
Where was the adopted relative at that moment?
On The Relative Morality Of Catholic And Protestant Countries.
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative.
"Who is this precious party, then, if he is not a lover or a relative?"
Hence all these relative ends can give rise only to hypothetical imperatives.
But they are undiminished only in a relative sense and in reference to present need.
To finish our instructions relative to the toilet, it only remains for us to make a few observations.