noun

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

   “Why do my relatives always talk about sex?”

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

adjective

1. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

2. (of a URL, URI, path, or similar) 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.”

3. (grammar) That relates to an antecedent.

Synonyms: comparative, conditional, limited