Relative means: Connected to or depending on something else; comparative. Related words include soul or somebody. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Relative in practice.

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Relative in a sentence

Relative | Relatively | Relatives

Relative meaning

  1. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
  2. Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
  3. Depending on an antecedent; comparative.

Synonyms of Relative

comparative congenator congener soul mortal somebody someone individual person relation proportionate proportional absolute relational congeneric

Example sentences (20)

A male relative shoved a cameraman as supporters including Button's wife, daughter and two sons left the building.

A criminal complaint alleged that he grabbed another relative by her jacket collar and then by the throat.

After closing January at under $53 per share, Sensata was over 25% discounted relative to its Morningstar fair value estimate.

Where he found a relative standing next to the patient, he would ask the relative to move so he could pass through.

Relative permittivity is the factor by which the electric field between the charges is decreased relative to vacuum.

Airprox is an aviation term where a pilot or air traffic controller believes the relative position and speed of two aircraft are unsafe.

Its stock is undervalued intrinsically, relative to historic multiples and relative to its competitor Cloudflare.

Global Spec There is a relative version of the functor Spec called global Spec, or relative Spec, and denoted by Spec.

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Africa is the region with the highest level relative to the size of its female population.

Cultures without relative directions Most human cultures use relative directions for reference, but there are exceptions.

Propensities, or chances, are not relative frequencies, but purported causes of the observed stable relative frequencies.

The relative permittivity of a material for a frequency of zero is known as its static relative permittivity.

A relative had commented on the empathy levels of the staff, and how they went at their relative's own pace.

Relative size The Moon is exceptionally large relative to Earth: a quarter its diameter and 1/81 its mass.

According to him, “That is to say the level of our market turnover relative to our country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is still insignificant.

A challenge in the second episode is built around rice, one of the most ubiquitous staples on Earth, but a relative stranger to two of the chefs.

The regulation of RNR and related enzymes maintains a balance of dNTPs relative to each other and relative to NTPs in the cell.

The two principal factors in determining the form of the lattice are the relative charges of the ions and their relative sizes.

A-minor is called the relative minor of C. Every major key has a relative minor, which starts on the sixth scale degree or step.

The "relative" coordinates in the following table were found by scaling the luminous reflectance relative to the flag's "white".

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These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:

Common combinations with relative

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "relative" in a sentence?
An example: "A male relative shoved a cameraman as supporters including Button's wife, daughter and two sons left the building." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "relative" from real English texts.
What does "relative" mean?
Relative means: Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
What are synonyms of "relative"?
Common synonyms of "relative" include: comparative, congenator, congener, soul, mortal, somebody, someone, individual. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "relative" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "relative", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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