relative
adj 1: not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger" [ant: {absolute}]
2: properly related in size or degree or other measurable
characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "punishment
oughtt to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings
relative to production" [syn: {proportional}]
n 1: a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching
for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant
relations back in New Jersey" [syn: {relation}]
2: an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as
related by common descent or by membership in the same
genus) [syn: {congener}, {congenator}]