Definition of relative

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Relative (n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives who, which, that..

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Whither :: Whither (adv.) To what or which place; -- used relatively.
Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
Close :: Close (v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open..
Sloven :: Sloven (n.) A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut..
Irrelative :: Irrelative (a.) Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected.
Buzzardet :: Buzzardet (n.) A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer..
Filiety :: Filiety (n.) The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
Why :: Why (adv.) For which; on account of which; -- used relatively.
Trespass :: Trespass (v.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another..
Respectively :: Respectively (adv.) Relatively; not absolutely.
Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft..
Dedicatee :: Dedicatee (n.) One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral..
Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.
Circumstance :: Circumstance (v. t.) To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
Positive :: Positive (a.) Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals..
He :: He (obj.) Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun..
Bereavement :: Bereavement (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death..
Rate :: Rate (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension..
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