adj ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Relating to relations.

   "essays on relational rights"

2. 2
   Friendly and peaceful.
3. 3
   Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
4. 4
   Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.

   "relational art"

5. 5
   Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.

Adjective

1. 1
   having a relation or being related wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

appertainingcomparablecomparativecongenialcorrelativeen rapport

Antonyms

All antonyms

irrelationalunrelational

Example

More examples

"The way our relational memory works is very interesting."

Etymology

From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.

Related phrases

relational adjectiverelational antonymrelational attributerelational communityrelational databaserelational modelrelational operator

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