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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; ... 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. ... 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 ... show more.

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