relative

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ close, near

▪ The succession passed to the nearest surviving relative.

▪ distant

▪ blood, family

▪ If you die without a will, only a husband, wife, children and blood relatives are entitled to inherit your property.

▪ immediate

▪ The deceased's immediate relatives will inherit her estate.

▪ living, surviving

▪ deceased

▪ elderly, old

▪ young

▪ female, male

▪ long-lost

▪ He greeted me like a long-lost relative.

▪ poor (often figurative)

▪ He believes that interior design is the poor relative of (= inferior to) architecture.

▪ dependent (esp. BrE)

▪ the increase in dependent elderly relatives

▪ disabled, ill, sick

▪ people who care for a sick or disabled relative

▪ bereaved, grieving (both esp. BrE)

VERB + RELATIVE

▪ have

▪ I have no parents or close relatives.

▪ lose

▪ an organization that helps people who have lost relatives (= whose relatives have died)

▪ care for, give support to, help, look after (esp. BrE), support, take care of (esp. AmE)

▪ She's caring for an elderly relative.

▪ live with

▪ stay with, visit

▪ find, trace (esp. BrE)

▪ The police are trying to find the relatives of the deceased.

▪ contact, inform

▪ The names of the victims are being withheld until the relatives have been informed.

PHRASES

▪ friends and relatives, friends or relatives

▪ an intimate reception for close friends and relatives

▪ a relative by marriage
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adj.

Relative is used with these nouns: ↑abundance, ↑advantage, ↑anonymity, ↑autonomy, ↑clause, ↑comfort, ↑conservatism, ↑contribution, ↑decrease, ↑deprivation, ↑distribution, ↑ease, ↑effectiveness, ↑efficiency, ↑failure, ↑freedom, ↑frequency, ↑harmony, ↑humidity, ↑importance, ↑impotence, ↑inactivity, ↑independence, ↑inexperience, ↑influence, ↑insignificance, ↑isolation, ↑lack, ↑luxury, ↑magnitude, ↑merit, ↑neglect, ↑obscurity, ↑peace, ↑percentage, ↑position, ↑privacy, ↑probability, ↑pronoun, ↑proportion, ↑prosperity, ↑quiet, ↑risk, ↑safety, ↑scarcity, ↑seclusion, ↑silence, ↑simplicity, ↑size, ↑stability, ↑status, ↑stranger, ↑strength, ↑success, ↑term, ↑uniformity, ↑unknown, ↑weakness, ↑wealth

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Synonyms:

Referring (to something else), not absolute, Relation, kinsman, connection / Respecting, relating to, pertaining to, belonging to, connected with, Relative pronoun / Particular, special, positive, definite, pertinent, relevant

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