RELATIVE
Definition:
- [noun] a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
Synonyms: relation
- [noun] 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
- [adjective] not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
- [adjective] properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"
Synonyms: proportional
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Related Words:
- ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root
- cousin, first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin
- descendant, descendent
- in-law, relative-in-law
- blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib
- kin, kinsperson, family
- enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrisib, matrilineal sib
- agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrisib, patrilineal sib
- kinsman
- kinswoman
- kissing cousin, kissing kin
- next of kin
- offspring, progeny, issue
- second cousin
- sibling, sib
- spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half
