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relatively

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relatively \Rel"a*tive*ly\, adv. In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. --I. Watts.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a relative manner; by comparison to something else; "the situation is relatively calm now" [syn: comparatively ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. Proportionally, in relation to some larger scale thing.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES relatively cheap ▪ The equipment is relatively cheap and simple to use. relatively painless ▪ The interview was relatively painless. relatively speaking ▪ Relatively speaking, property there is still cheap. relatively/fairly/quite ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"in relation to something else," 1560s, from relative (adj.) + -ly (2).

Usage examples of relatively.

After a few years that archival section is going to begin filling up with some great actionable concepts, worked out in relatively valid detail.

As the process of hydrolysis proceeds, the amyloins become gradually poorer in amylin and relatively richer in maltose-groups.

Instead, it accepted their presence and eventually was relatively relaxed as first Baken, then Vetch handled it.

His arm already had been swabbed with iodine, sewn up and bandaged and in a sling and he was thanking his luck that his wound was relatively superficial.

Though the crowds were great and the Baptist had a new, young follower, he remained relatively inaccessible these days.

It has a seemingly simple and limited behavioural repertoire, including various forms of learning, while its relatively easily mapped central nervous system contains only a small number of cells - no more than 20,000 neurons in all, arranged in a system of distributed ganglia and including amongst them a population of very large cells which can be recognized easily and reproducibly from animal to animal.

In this situation, it had been relatively easy for Snudge to slip away from his fellow-retainers, perform his clandestine duties, and bespeak his findings directly to Lord Stergos, who would pass the information on to the High King.

He characteristically has not spared himself in serving the interests of the Survey and the Cenozoic Laboratory and after his popularizing Sinanthropus for us in America I should have a relatively easy task before me a year from now when I will have to ask for more money from the powers that be.

Part of an Ubiquitous clade, found wherever Dwellers were, they harvested water condensation out of Dwellerine gas-giant atmospheres, using their dangling, thick and relatively solid roots to exploit the temperature difference between the various atmospheric layers.

The coolant stopped being heated by the fuel and arrived at the steam generators relatively cool at 465 degrees.

Usually, the girls and women aboard such vessels were relatively innocent, filled with wide-eyed eagerness, products of a crimeless planet.

September 27 Throne Speech, only eight relatively insignificant items were passed into law and only two pieces of important legislation - a bill to establish a National Economic Development Board and a measure to allay the impact of automation - ever reached the debating stage.

All night-prowling animals have widely dilatable pupils, and in addition to this they have in the retina a special organ called the tapetum lucidum, the function of which is to reflect to a focus in front of them the relatively few rays of light that enter the widely-dilated pupil and thus enable them the better to see their way.

This was the Dingle, after all, a wild and relatively remote place with its own ways.

Dealing with aliens seemed relatively straightforward compared with dealing with missing illegal immigrants, dodgy restaurant owners, learning to drive surrounded by a mob of delinquents and appearing in a jinxed dramatic production.