relational
Syllables: re·la·tio·nal
relational adjective: relating to relations.
Adjective
relational (comparative more relational, superlative most relational)
- Relating to relations.
- essays on relational rights
- Of these three great groups of feelings the first are extremely unrelational; the second are somewhat more relational; and the third are relational in a comparatively high degree.1873, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, volume 1, page 250
- Antonyms:
- irrelational, unrelational
- Friendly and peaceful.
- Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
- Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
- relational art
- Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.
relational meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
relational in Hindi
- संबंधात्मक, संबंधपरक
relational in Marathi
- संबंधात्मक
relational in Bengali
- সম্পর্কমূলক, সম্পর্কগত
relational in Telugu
- రిలేషనల్
More languagesFewer languages
- relational in Malayalam
- റിലേഷണൽ
- relational in Gujarati
- સંબંધાત્મક
- relational in Odia
- ସମ୍ପର୍କଗତ, ସମ୍ପର୍କାତ୍ମକ
- relational in Nepali
- सम्बन्धात्मक
Examples of relational in a sentence
- I will call this counterdisposition relational and interactive rather than discretely comparativist.
- We had selected warm, loving women as aides and had emphasized heavily relational factors in their training.
- Sometimes a cigar is a cigar and not a psychological or relational issue.
Antonyms of relational
- irrelational
- unrelational
Forms of relational
| comparative | more relational |
|---|---|
| superlative | most relational |
Origin of relational
From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.
Words formed from relational
- interrelational
- metarelational
- multirelational
- nonrelational
- pseudorelational
- relational adjective
- relational antonym
- relational attribute
- relational community
- relational database
- relational grammar
- relationalism
- relationality
- relationally
- relational model
- relationalness
- relational operator
- sociorelational
Phrases with relational
Questions about relational
- What does relational mean?
- Relational means relating to relations.
- What is relational in Hindi?
- Relational in Hindi is संबंधात्मक, संबंधपरक. See Relational meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is relational?
- Relational is an adjective.
Words near relational in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: relational (page history and authors); relational (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); relational (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); relational (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); relational (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); relational (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); relational (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); relational (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); relational (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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