relative to

preposition

: with regard to : in connection with

Examples of relative to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On the edge, Dre’Mont Jones tallied a pressure in team drills, and Elijah Ponder had a down day relative to some recent practices. — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 1 Aug. 2026

But these sequences were reintroduced to the human genome later in our history, so recombination should be far less frequent relative to a genome that’s been in the modern human lineage the whole time. — ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026

Watch the production defect rate—defects escaping into production relative to code shipped. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

The Financial Times‘ Joel Suss recently argued that gains from new technology have not automatically flowed to the workers producing them since around 1970, as labor’s share of GDP has fallen relative to capital’s. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1649, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for relative to

• accrue
• ado
• ainu
• aircrew
• airscrew
• anew
• askew
• baboo
• babu
• bamboo
• beaucoup
• bijou

Kids Definition

relative to

preposition

: in relation to

the angle of the pole relative to the ground