Antonym: absolute. Similar words: relatively, relation, correlation, relationship, in relation to, legislative, relate, related. Meaning: ['relətɪv] n. 1. a person related by blood or marriage 2. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus). adj. 1. not absolute or complete 2. properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'.
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91. Now that the civil war is over, relative normality has returned to the south of the country.
92. They weighed up the relative merits of the four candidates.
93. The amount of petrol a car uses is relative to its speed.
94. They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live.
95. Thus, relative risks were calculated on 130 patients.
96. The relative calm before this convention is almost eerie.
97. You only attain new levels of relative poverty.
98. Other groups with possible relative deficiency would be those with malabsorption and acute or chronic infection.
99. Foster indicates how commitment to relative autonomy of the political, ideological and economic generates accounts which look very like traditional functionalism.
100. Among wild creatures rarity is a relative condition, not always determined on the basis of actual numbers.
101. The relative importance may change, as can be seen in the increasing importance of mechanical weathering in cold and dry climates.
102. Our path dropped down to the relative calm of the sea shore, edging craggy inlets beneath overhanging cliff tops.
103. The assessment procedures consisted of bimonthly interviews of the patients and a friend or relative with whom the patient was living.
104. Essentiality is a somewhat arbitrary and relative term when it comes to the food value of treats.
105. A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
106. When I'd convinced myself that girl whose hand he held must be a relative, the banns were called.
107. Time is relative - and Einstein has a lot to answer for.
108. Unhappily, habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance.
109. The value of shared facilities or labour must be apportioned strictly in proportion to relative benefits received.
110. Yet by comparison with the fate of most people in Caxias, this is a haven of relative calm and well-being.
111. It is hard to make a direct comparison, for relative prices have changed.
112. As the inquest broke for lunch one relative cornered him in the street.
113. It also possesses relative autonomy, however, when they are not.
114. Small and medium sized firms have been adopting this technology as result of its increasing reliability and declining relative cost.
115. The problem ultimately lies in the relative weakness of the Third World economy in the world capitalist system.
116. There was something else Dilip offered me, the seductions of relative comfort. Sentencedict.com
117. The relative proportions of the different diagnoses reached must, however, be interpreted with caution.
118. In particular, size differences can lead to differences in relative factor rewards and scale-adjusted relative commodity prices.
119. The decline of the relative stability and growth of world capitalism that marked the 1950s and the early 1960s.
120. A crisis tends to arise out of a deterioration in health, or even the death of a carer, spouse or relative.
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