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Examples of relative in a Sentence
At the family reunion, I saw relatives I haven't seen in years.
He inherited a small piece of land from a distant relative.
The donkey is a relative of the horse.
Recent Examples of relative from the Web
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While working on finding the identity of Tveidt’s father, Moore also narrowed down his mother’s identity by using the DNA of his relatives.
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Hundreds of Republicans are believed to be buried there, and seven families are currently waging a campaign to bring their relatives home.
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The processing of a visa application also lasted several years and included a huge amount of paper work, affidavits from relatives or friends in the U.S.
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For nine days, a crowd of relatives and friends have held a nightly vigil near the entrance.
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About 40 relatives and friends of LaShanda Anderson staged a two-hour protest Sunday in the sweltering heat in front of the Marshalls store at the Deptford Crossing strip mall where the June 9 shooting occurred.
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Trump has issued an executive order reversing his own family separation policy, but around 2,000 children remain removed from relatives.
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In 2014-2015, according to an Office of the Inspector General report, 60 percent of unaccompanied children were released to their parents; 99 percent were released to relatives or close friends.
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The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with director Lisa D'Apolito, producer Meryl Goldsmith and Michael Radner, who will attend the local premiere along with assorted cousins, relatives and old friends.
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First Known Use of relative
14th century
Other Genetics Terms
Definition of relative
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: introducing a subordinate clause qualifying an expressed or implied antecedent
- a relative pronoun
- a relative clause
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: not absolute or independent : comparative
- the relative isolation of life in the country
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: having the same key signature
—used of major and minor keys and scales
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: expressed as the ratio of the specified quantity (such as an error in measuring) to the total magnitude (such as the value of a measured quantity) or to the mean of all the quantities involved
Examples of relative in a Sentence
the relative value of two houses
the relative positions of the islands
We discussed the relative merits of each school.
“Who,” “whom,” “whose,” “which,” and “that” are all relative pronouns.
The phrase “that won” in “the book that won” is a relative clause.
Recent Examples of relative from the Web
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The office shelters those children until a relative or family friend living in the United States comes forward to sponsor them.
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Relevance is relative and, as relatives go, ESPN is a supportive rich uncle.
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No professional sports team thrives without a mix of (relative) youth and experience, even teams trying to crawl back out from the muck.
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Often, that means some sort of temporary shelter until a relative or family friend can be identified to take them.
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Consider checking out the property in person or having a friend or relative go before paying a security deposit.
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If this is a concern, have a good family friend or another relative — someone a little disconnected from the immediate family — offer an outlet for the child to ask questions or vent her worries.
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That success lured other investors, encouraging more development and raising the risk of oversupply given the relative ease with which such structures can be built in out-of-town locations.
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Penny Hart, Georgia State Few know about Hart, who plays in relative obscurity for Georgia State in the Sun Belt Conference, but his numbers are can’t be ignored.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'relative.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of relative
15th century
relative Synonyms
Antonyms
extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, irrelative, irrelevant, pointless;
Near Antonyms
frivolous, inconsequential, insignificant, little, minor, negligible, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportant;
meaningless, purposeless, senseless, useless;
Phrases
to the point;
RELATIVE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of relative for English Language Learners
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: a member of your family
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: something that belongs to the same group as something else because of shared characteristics, qualities, etc.
relative
Definition of relative for English Language Learners
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: compared to someone or something else or to each other
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: seeming to be something when compared with others
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grammar : referring to a noun, a part of a sentence, or a sentence that was used earlier
RELATIVE Defined for Kids
Definition of relative for Students
: a person connected with another by ancestry or marriage
Law Dictionary
relative
adjective
rel·a·tive
legal Definition of relative
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: not absolute
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in the civil law of Louisiana
: having or allowing some legal effect
- a relative impediment
- a relative simulation
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relatively
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