Usually means: In comparison to something else.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. relatively: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. relatively: Merriam-Webster
  3. relatively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. relatively: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. relatively: Collins English Dictionary
  6. relatively: Vocabulary.com
  7. Relatively, relatively: Wordnik
  8. relatively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. relatively: Wiktionary
  10. relatively: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. relatively: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. relatively: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Relatively, relatively: Dictionary.com
  14. relatively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Relatively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. relatively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. relatively: Rhymezone
  18. Relatively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. relatively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. relatively: FreeDictionary.org
  21. relatively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. relatively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. relatively: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. relatively: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relatively: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relatively: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RELATIVELY: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  In a relative manner; with reference to environment or competition; contextually or comparatively.
▸ adverb:  (sometimes proscribed) Somewhat; fairly.

Similar:
comparatively, fairly, remarkably, very, unusually, extremely, moderately, comparably, surprisingly, somewhat, more...

Opposite:
absolutely, completely, entirely, totally, utterly

Types:
relatively speaking, in comparison, in comparison to, more...

Phrases:
relatively speaking, relatively prime, relatively compact, Relatively compact subspace, relatively new, more...

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Similar:
comparatively, fairly, remarkably, very, unusually, extremely, moderately, comparably, surprisingly, somewhat, more...

Opposite:
absolutely, completely, entirely, totally, utterly

Types:
relatively speaking, in comparison, in comparison to, more...

Phrases:
relatively speaking, relatively prime, relatively compact, Relatively compact subspace, relatively new, relatively soft hardwoods, relatively low, relatively easy, relatively large, relatively small, more...



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