Found 4 items, similar to relative.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: relative relatif
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: relative dansanak, famili, nisbi
English → English (WordNet) Definition: relative relative adj 1: not absolute or complete; “a relative stranger” [ant: absolute] 2: properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; “punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime”; “earnings relative to production” [syn: proportional] relative n 1: a person related by blood or marriage; “police are searching for relatives of the deceased”; “he has distant relations back in New Jersey” [syn: relation] 2: an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) [syn: congener, congenator]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Relative Relative \Rel"a*tive\ (r?l"?-t?v), a. [F. relatif, L. relativus. See Relate.] 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. [1913 Webster] I'll have grounds More relative than this. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute. [1913 Webster] Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relations to the whole. --South. [1913 Webster] 3. (Gram.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mus.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). [1913 Webster] Relative clause (Gram.), a clause introduced by a relative pronoun. Relative term, a term which implies relation to, as guardian to ward, matter to servant, husband to wife. Cf. Correlative. [1913 Webster] Relative \Rel"a*tive\, n. One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. Specifically: (a) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. “Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives.” --Bp. Fell. (b) (Gram.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives “who”, “which”, “that”. [1913 Webster]