relative as a noun: - 1
- 2
as an adjective: - 1
- 2
relative
noun
1 relative
A person related by blood or marriage:
— Police are searching for relatives of the deceased.
synonym: relation.
Roget 11:
consanguinity,
relationship,
kindred,
blood;
parentage
etc.
(paternity)
166;
filiation†,
affiliation;
lineage,
agnation†,
connection,
alliance;
family connection,
family tie;
ties of blood;
nepotism.
kinsman,
kinfolk;
kith and kin;
relation,
relative;
connection;
sibling,
sib;
next of kin;
uncle,
aunt,
nephew,
niece;
cousin,
cousin-german†;
first cousin,
second cousin;
cousin once removed,
cousin twice removed;
etc.
near relation,
distant relation;
brother,
sister,
one's own flesh and blood.
family,
fraternity;
brotherhood,
sisterhood,
cousinhood†.
race,
stock,
generation;
sept
etc.
166;
stirps,
side;
strain;
breed,
clan,
tribe,
nation.
... show more
Dutch: bloedverwant, familielid, maag, naverwant, verwant
Polish: członek rodziny
2 relative
An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus).
synonyms: congenator, congener, congeneric.
Dutch: soortgenoot
Polish: kuzyn, krewny
adjective
1 relative
Estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete:
— A relative stranger.
synonym: comparative.
2 relative
Properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to':
— Earnings relative to production.
synonym: proportional.
Roget 9:
relative;
correlative
etc.
12;
cognate;
relating to
etc.
v.;
relative to,
in relation with,
referable or referrible to†;
belonging to
etc.
v.;
appurtenant to,
in common with.
related,
connected;
implicated,
associated,
affiliated,
allied to;
en rapport,
in touch with.
approximative†,
approximating;
proportional,
proportionate,
proportionable;
allusive,
comparable.
in the same category
etc.
75;
like
etc.
17;
relevant
etc.
(apt)
23;
applicable,
equiparant†.
... show more
Polish: względny, relatywny
Moby thesaurus: affiliated, affinitive, agnate, allied, analogical, analogous, ancestry, appertaining, applicable, approximate, apropos, associated, associative, aunt, blood, blood relation, blood relative, brother, child, clansman, cognate, collatable, collateral, collateral relative, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, conditional, congenial, connected, connections, connective, consanguinean, contingent, contingent on, correlative, cousin, daughter, dependent on, distaff side, distant relation, en rapport, enate, family, father, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, germane, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandparent, grandson, half brother, interconnected, interrelated, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, linking, matchable, mother, much at one, near, near relation, nephew, next of kin, niece, parallel, parent, people, pertaining, pertinent, posterity, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable, referring, related, relating, relation, relational, relations, relative to, relatives, relevant, reliant, sib, sibling, similar, sister, son, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, subject to, subordinate to, sword side, sympathetic, tribesman, uncle, uterine kin ... show more.
debug info: 0.08