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A relative is a person who is part of your family. Parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, nieces and nephews — they're all relatives.

A relative can be connected to your family through blood or by marriage. If you are a child or grandchild of Maria's, for example, you are a blood relative of her family. If you marry Maria's son, you become a relative by marriage. Relative is also an adjective that means "estimated by comparison," like the steep hill that is tiny, relative to the mountain behind it.

DEFINITIONS OF: relative

adj estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

“a relative stranger”

Synonyms:: comparative

: relational
having a relation or being related

Antonyms:: absolute
perfect or complete or pure; direct
lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; implicit, unquestioning
being without doubt or reserve; infinite
total and all-embracing; living
(informal) absolute; show more antonyms...

adj properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'

“earnings relative to production”

Synonyms:: proportional

: proportionate
being in due proportion

n a person related by blood or marriage

“police are searching for relatives of the deceased”

Synonyms:: relation

Examples:: show 22 examples...; hide 22 examples...; Abraham
the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son; Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel
prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861); Bathsheba
(Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC); Benjamin
(Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel; Catherine of Aragon
first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536); Anne Hathaway
wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623); Isaac
(Old Testament) the second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah who was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice to God; father of Jacob and Esau; Ishmael
(Old Testament) the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac; considered the forebear of 12 Arabian tribes; Issachar
(Old Testament) a son of Jacob and a forebear of one of the tribes of Israel; Joseph
(Old Testament) the 11th son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel; Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, which made his brothers jealous and they sold him into slavery in Egypt; Judah
(Old Testament) the fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel; one of his descendants was to be the Messiah; Marquise de Maintenon
French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719); Methuselah
(Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years; Naomi
the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament; Noah
the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis; Rachel
(Old Testament) the second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin; Rebecca
(Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau; Reuben
(Old Testment) a son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel; Ruth
the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament; Sarah
(Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac; Esau
(Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage; Blessed Virgin
the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics

Types:: show 55 types...; hide 55 types...; ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent); cousin, cousin-german, first cousin, full cousin
the child of your aunt or uncle; descendant, descendent
a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race; in-law, relative-in-law
a relative by marriage; blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib
one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another; family, kin, kinsperson
a person having kinship with another or others; enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib
one related on the mother's side; agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib
one related on the father's side; kinsman
a male relative; kinswoman
a female relative; kissing cousin, kissing kin
a more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss; next of kin
the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person; issue, offspring, progeny
the immediate descendants of a person; second cousin
a child of a first cousin; sib, sibling
a person's brother or sister; better half, married person, mate, partner, spouse
a person's partner in marriage; affine
(anthropology) kin by marriage; ancestress
a woman ancestor; aunt, auntie, aunty
the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle; baby
the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young); bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson
the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents; bigamist
someone who marries one person while already legally married to another; brother-in-law
a brother by marriage; child, kid
a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; child
a member of a clan or tribe; consort
the husband or wife of a reigning monarch; daughter-in-law
the wife of your son; father-in-law
the father of your spouse; female sibling
a person's sister; eldest, firstborn
the offspring who came first in the order of birth; forbear, forebear
a person from whom you are descended; father, forefather, sire
the founder of a family; foremother
a woman ancestor; primogenitor, progenitor
an ancestor in the direct line; grandchild
a child of your son or daughter; half blood
one of siblings who have only one parent in common; helpmate, helpmeet
a helpful partner; hubby, husband, married man
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage; male sibling
a sibling who is male; monogamist, monogynist
someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time); mother-in-law
the mother of your spouse; nephew
a son of your brother or sister; honeymooner, newlywed
someone recently married; niece
a daughter of your brother or sister; polygamist
someone who is married to two or more people at the same time; quad, quadruplet
one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy; quin, quint, quintuplet
one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy; scion
a descendent or heir; sister-in-law
the sister of your spouse; son-in-law
the husband of your daughter; heir, successor
a person who inherits some title or office; triplet
one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy; twin
either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy; uncle
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt; married woman, wife
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

Type of:: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being

n an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

Synonyms:: congenator, congener, congeneric

Type of:: being, organism
a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

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