relatives

Meaning of relatives

noun
  1. Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
    Why do my relatives always talk about sex?
  2. A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

Information about relatives

Hyphenation of relatives

rel-a-tives

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • relatives is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Anagrams of relatives

levirates, versatile

Words that rhyme with relatives

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