RELEVANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does relevant mean? • RELEVANT (adjective)
The adjective RELEVANT has 1 sense:
1. having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
Familiarity information: RELEVANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RELEVANT (adjective)
Meaning:
Having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
Context example:
the scientist corresponds with colleagues in order to learn about matters relevant to her own research
Similar:
applicable (capable of being applied; having relevance)
at issue; in dispute; in hand; in question; under consideration (now in consideration or under discussion)
germane; related (having close kinship and appropriateness)
pertinent; to the point (having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand)
Antonym:
irrelevant (having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue)
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