noun
- A person related by blood or marriage.
- usage: "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
- synonyms: relation
- An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus.
- synonyms: congener, congenator, congeneric
adjective
- Estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete.
- usage: "a relative stranger"
- synonyms: comparative
- Properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'.
- usage: "the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"
- synonyms: proportional
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