Akin vs Relative - What's the difference?
akin | relative | Related terms |
(of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
* 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 23:
(often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
* 1677 , , The Court of the Gentiles , T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:
* 1710 , anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator , vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:
* 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 44:
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 39:
* 1910 , , "Old Well-Well," Success (July):
Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
* 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “
Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
(grammar) That relates to an antecedent.
(music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
Relevant; pertinent; related.
Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
(linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
Akin is a related term of relative.
As adjectives the difference between akin and relative
is that akin is (of persons) of the same kin; related by blood while relative is connected to or depending on something else; comparative.As a noun relative is
someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.akin
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
- Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
- She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
- Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
- Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
- Something akin to a smile shone on his face.
Usage notes
* This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.Anagrams
* * * ----relative
English
Adjective
(-)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- ''The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http&
- x3A;//example.com/docs/pic.html
, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.
- relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...
Synonyms
* comparative * conditional * limitedAntonyms
* absolute * unlimitedDerived terms
* relative toNoun
(en noun)- Why do my relatives always talk about sex?