Parents vs Relative - What's the difference?
parents | relative |
(parent)
Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
* 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “
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 parents and relative
is that parents is plural of lang=en while relative is someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.As a verb parents
is third-person singular of parent.As an adjective relative is
connected to or depending on something else; comparative.parents
English
Noun
(head)- I like hanging out with my parents , but my friends think it's weird.
Synonyms
* folks * parentals * old fogies * 'rentsVerb
(head)Anagrams
* ----relative
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?
