Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

relational

/ɹilˈeɪʃənəl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English

Syllables: re-la-tio-nal
IPA: /ɹilˈeɪʃənəl/

10

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to relations.

adj

Friendly and peaceful.

adj

Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.

adj

Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.

adj

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"relational art"

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Suffix: relation

Inflected Forms

more relational (comparative) most relational (superlative)

Derived Forms

interrelational metarelational multirelational nonrelational pseudorelational relationalism relationality relationally relationalness sociorelational

Phrases

relational adjective relational antonym relational attribute relational community relational database relational grammar relational model relational operator

Antonyms

irrelational unrelational

Rhymes With

educational operational recreational organizational inspirational occupational vocational computational sensational gravitational motivational generational

Questions

How do you pronounce relational?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹilˈeɪʃənəl/.
What does relational mean?: Relating to relations.
Where does relational come from?: From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.

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