Word Meanings - RELATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. (more info) 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. I'll

Additional info about word: RELATIVE

Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. (more info) 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. I'll have grounds More relative than this. Shak. 2. 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. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELATIVE)

• Branch
• Member
• bifurcation
• bough
• limb
• offspring
• shoot
• spray
• sprig
• twig
• ramification
• offshoot
• relative
• scion
• Converse
• Opposite
• reverse
• contrary
• opposed
• contradictory
• counter
• correlative
• Dependent
• Hanging
• resting
• contingent
• trusting
• relying
• subject
• Germane
• Allied
• kindred
• related
• homogeneous
• appropriate
• akin
• pertinent
• Relation
• reference
• aspect
• connection
• narration
• proportion
• bearing
• affinity
• homogeneity
• association
• relevancy
• pertinency
• fitness
• harmony
• ratio
• agreement
• kinsman
• appurtenancy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RELATIVE)

• Keep silent
• Order
• arrange
• place
• collocate
• range

Related words: (words related to RELATIVE)

• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• RATIOCINATE
  To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.
• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BOUGHT
  1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• KAKARALLI
  A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.