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suhteellinen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • comparative adjective Measured or judged by comparison rather than in absolute terms.
  • proportional adj Corresponding in size or degree to something else, changing at a matching rate.
  • proportionate adj In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
  • relative adjective Considered in comparison with something else, rather than in absolute terms.

Senses

suhteellinen is used for these senses in English:

  • comparative Approximated by comparison; relative.
  • gradable (linguistics, of a word or phrase) Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.
  • proportional Of a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces).
  • proportionate In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
  • relative Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

comparative — full definition

  1. adjective Measured or judged by comparison rather than in absolute terms.
  2. noun The grammatical form of an adjective or adverb used to compare two things, such as "bigger" or "more quickly."

proportional — full definition

  1. adj Corresponding in size or degree to something else, changing at a matching rate.
  2. adj (of a typeface) Having letters of varying width rather than all the same width.

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