relative
re luh tiv
- n a person related by blood or marriage
police are searching for relatives of the deceased - n an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
- a estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
a relative stranger - s properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'
earnings relative to production
- Or he could forgo those relative newcomers and instead try to underscore his own experience by tapping former governor, businessman and Olympics organizer Mitt Romney of .
- It was, after all, not easy to be brought from relative obscurity to the relative glory of a vice-presidential candidacy, only to face the prospect of being flung down again.
- As a relative state, happiness is what psychologists call our "subjective well-being" and, fortunately for us, it is a state that we can actively change for the better.