relatively
IPA: rˈɛɫʌtɪvɫi
adverb
- In a relative manner; with reference to environment or competition; contextually or comparatively.
- (sometimes proscribed) Somewhat; fairly.
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Examples of "relatively" in Sentences
- ‘Nothing’ may be a bit extreme but I use the term relatively – as compared to truly historic events.
- He also says that at least six other Marines have received shrapnel wounds, which he described as relatively superficial.
- Kocherlakota said the backlash against the program did not change his calculation of the plan's costs, which he called relatively small.
- Mark Mahaney of Citigroup cited what he called "relatively positive sources of revenue, largely in mobile advertising," as well as big increases in total listening hours.
- There are some out there who say 55 percent against what they call a relatively weak field did not leave you in good stead should you decide to mount a statewide campaign.
- There are some out there who say 55 percent against what they call the relatively weak field did not leave you in good stead should you decide to mount a statewide campaign.
- And so it's not uncommon for one engine to be what they call a relatively high-time engine, ready for an overhaul fairly soon, twinned up with one that just came out of the engine shop.
- On April 8, 1977, in a letter to me acknowledging what he called his relatively minor role in the Columbia job offer, Professor Lipset asked if he might publish a corrected version of the account.
- If the objection is particular, the objector must frame his contradiction with reference to a term relatively to which the subject of his opponent's premiss is universal, e.g. he will point out that the knowable and the unknowable are not subjects of the same science: 'contraries' is universal relatively to these.
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