Dependent vs Relative - What's the difference?
dependent | relative |
Relying upon; depending upon.
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(medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
Hanging down.
(US) One who relies on another for support
(grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
(grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
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Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
(grammar) That relates to an antecedent.
(music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
Relevant; pertinent; related.
Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
(linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
As nouns the difference between dependent and relative
is that dependent is while relative is someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.As an adjective relative is
connected to or depending on something else; comparative.dependent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
Noun
(en noun)- With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.)
Synonyms
* dependantrelative
English
Adjective
(-)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- ''The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http&
- x3A;//example.com/docs/pic.html
, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.
- relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...
Synonyms
* comparative * conditional * limitedAntonyms
* absolute * unlimitedDerived terms
* relative toNoun
(en noun)- Why do my relatives always talk about sex?