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relative
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of RELATIVE
1
being such only when compared to something else <after being crammed into a one-bedroom apartment, they lived in relative comfort in a two-bedroom house>
2
having to do with the matter at hand <I don't need the whole story, just the details that are relative to the case>
Related Words appropriate, apt, fit, fitting, suitable; important, meaningful, significant; sensible, useful; admissible, allowable
Near Antonyms frivolous, inconsequential, insignificant, little, minor, negligible, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportant; meaningless, purposeless, senseless, useless; inappropriate, inapt, unsuitable; inadmissible
Antonyms extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, irrelative, irrelevant, pointless
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