All 5 Uses of
relative
in
Man And Superman
- We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.†
Chpt 1 *
- When you meet your relatives there, and they persist in treating you as if you were still a mortal, you will not be able to bear them.†
Chpt 1
- Come! there's nobody listening: neither my genteel relatives nor the secretary of your confounded Union.†
Chpt 2
- When a man who is born a poet refuses a stool in a stockbroker's office, and starves in a garret, spunging on a poor landlady or on his friends and relatives rather than work against his grain; or when a lady, because she is a lady, will face any extremity of parasitic dependence rather than take a situation as cook or parlormaid, we make large allowances for them.†
Chpt 3
- Yes: a funeral was always a festivity in black, especially the funeral of a relative.†
Chpt 3 *
Definitions:
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(relative as in: they are relatives) connectedin various senses, including:
- a person related by blood or marriage -- as in "The hospital won't let me visit her because I'm not a relative."
- a plant or animal related by origin or grouping -- "The closest relative of the dog is the gray wolf."
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(relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)