Relative in a sentence as a noun

In other news, 23andMe introduced relative finder not long ago. I hadn't logged on in over 2 years after I did it with a groupon promo, but I had a public profile with my name and city.

You don't have to be scared: this is routine and, while it doesn't feel like it, you're actually in very good position, both absolutely and relative to many other people.

Sarbanes-Oxley, clusterfuck that it is, has at least kept the number of Internet companies IPOing relatively low.

Relative in a sentence as an adjective

They are called CEOs and there is a high likelihood that they are very, very well compensated relative to the best performers in many other industries.

Give them the powers, and they will be misused - in this case they were used on a relative of someone nothing to do with terrorism purely for the purpose of intimidation.

There are two issues here: a particular dispute between O'Reilly Media and one of our authors, and the relative advantages of using a publisher versus going it alone.

Relative definitions

noun

a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

See also: relation

noun

an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

See also: congener congenator congeneric

adjective

estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"

See also: comparative

adjective

properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"

See also: proportional