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relative

[ˈɹɛl.ə.tʰɪv]
noun
  1. Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.

    "Why do my relatives always talk about sex?"

  2. A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

adjective
  1. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

  2. (of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

    "The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg."

  3. (grammar) That relates to an antecedent.

Synonymscomparative, conditional, limited
Antonymsabsolute, unlimited

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