Relative vs. Relevant

Relativeadjective

Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

Relevantadjective

Directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.

‘His mother provided some relevant background information concerning his medical condition.’;

Relativeadjective

Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

‘The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.’;

Relevantadjective

Not out of date; current.

Relativeadjective

(grammar) That relates to an antecedent.

Relevantadjective

Relieving; lending aid or support.

Relativeadjective

(music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.

Relevantadjective

Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable.

‘Close and relevant arguments have very little hold on the passions.’;

Relativeadjective

Relevant; pertinent; related.

‘relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...’;

Relevantadjective

Sufficient to support the cause.

Relativeadjective

Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.

Relevantadjective

having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue;

‘the scientist corresponds with colleagues in order to learn about matters relevant to her own research’;

Relativenoun

Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.

‘Why do my relatives always talk about sex?’;

Relevantadjective

having crucial relevance;

‘crucial to the case’; ‘relevant testimony’;

Relativenoun

(linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

Relevantadjective

closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered

‘the candidate's experience is relevant to the job’; ‘what small companies need is relevant advice’;

Relativeadjective

Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

‘I'll have groundsMore relative than this.’;

Relevantadjective

appropriate to the current time, period, or circumstances; of contemporary interest

‘critics may find themselves unable to stay relevant in a changing world’; ‘her films are relevant for feminists today’;

Relativeadjective

Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.

‘Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relations to the whole.’;

Relativeadjective

Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.

Relativeadjective

Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.

Relativenoun

One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.

Relativenoun

a person related by blood or marriage;

‘police are searching for relatives of the deceased’; ‘he has distant relations back in New Jersey’;

Relativenoun

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

Relativeadjective

not absolute or complete;

‘a relative stranger’;

Relativeadjective

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’;

Relativeadjective

considered in relation or in proportion to something else

‘the relative effectiveness of the various mechanisms is not known’;

Relativeadjective

existing or possessing a specified characteristic only in comparison to something else; not absolute

‘she went down the steps into the relative darkness of the dining room’; ‘the firms are relative newcomers to computers’;

Relativeadjective

denoting a pronoun, determiner, or adverb that refers to an expressed or implied antecedent and attaches a subordinate clause to it, e.g. which, who.

Relativeadjective

(of a clause) attached to an antecedent by a relative word.

Relativeadjective

(of major and minor keys) having the same key signature.

Relativeadjective

(of a service rank) corresponding in grade to another in a different service.

Relativenoun

a person connected by blood or marriage

‘much of my time is spent visiting relatives’;

Relativenoun

a species related to another by common origin

‘the plant is a relative of ivy’;

Relativenoun

a relative pronoun, determiner, or adverb.

Relativenoun

a term or concept which is dependent on something else.