Relative

Definition

relative /'relǝtv/ adj ၁။ (က) ~ (to sth) ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ခ်က္အရ။ the relative merits of the two plans/candidates/cars ❍ the position of the sun relative to the earth. (ခ) (ယခင္ အေျခအေန၊ အျခားသူမ်ား၊ အျခားျဖစ္ရပ္တို႔)ႏွင့္ ႏိႈင္းစာပါက။ They are living in relative comfort. ❍ Given the team's run of defeats, this draw was a relative success. Compare ABSOLUTE ၄ ၂။ ~ (to sth) ( fml ) (following ns) ပတ္သက္ေသာ။ the facts/papers relative to the case. ၃။ ( grammar ) (ဤအဘိဓာန္၌ rel ဟု အတိုေကာက္သံုးသည္။ ) ေရွ႕ရိွနာမ္၊ ဝါက်က႑၊ ဝါက်တို႔ကို ရည္ၫႊန္းေသာ အၫႊန္း (နာမ္စား)။ In the phrase ‘the man who came’, ‘who’ is a relative pronoun and ‘who came’ is a relative clause. n ေဆြမ်ဳိး။ friends and relatives ❍ close/distant relatives. ❏ relatively adv (က) ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ခ်က္အားျဖင့္။ Considering the smallness of the car, it is relatively roomy inside. ❍ People spend relatively less on food than they did ten years ago (ie as a proportion of their total spending). ❍ Relatively speaking, this matter is unimportant. (ခ) ေတာ္ေတာ္။ အေတာ္။ အေတာ္ကေလး။ In spite of her illness, she is relatively cheerful.

Examples

1. There was relative calm after the violence of the previous night.
2. A period of relative economic stability
3. The parents were discussing the relative merits of the local schools.
4. [it’s (all) relative] : I think we work very hard
5. but it’s all relative.