relevant
pronunciation
How to pronounce relevant in British English:
UK [ˈreləvənt]
How to pronounce relevant in American English:
US [ˈreləvənt]
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- Adjective:
- having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
- having crucial relevance
Word Origin
- relevant
- relevant: [16] Relevant comes ultimately from the present participle of Latin relevāre ‘raise’, source of English relief and relieve. The modern English sense ‘appropriate’ probably developed from a medieval application of relevāre to ‘take up’, hence ‘take possession of property’, which led to relevant being used as a legal term for ‘connected with’.=> relief, relieve
- relevant (adj.)
- "pertinent to the matter at hand," 1550s, from Middle French relevant "depending upon," originally "helpful," from Medieval Latin relevantem (nominative relevans), from stem of Latin relevare "to lessen, lighten" (see relieve). Not generally used until after 1800.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Create a blog and write relevant articles .
- 2. Tools : what tools are relevant to the problem ?
- 3. That 's where this debate gets a lot more interesting and relevant .
- 4. But they have to make it relevant .
- 5. They secured seed funding and the university 's department of educational psychology hired new faculty with relevant skills .