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relational

relational

19 5.6
Showing how people or things are connected
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈleɪʃənl/
translation icon : relacional
  • Building strong friendships often requires a relational approach to communication.
  • relational database
  • relational bullying
  • relational adjustment

It's both embodied, it's a relational and embodied process.

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Examples

  • Marriage is the most consequential financial and relational decision we ever make.

  • In addition, assessments of kin networks should also explore the relational aspects of giving and receiving assistance.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Now we can have a relational experience.

  • But how do we find a relational home for feelings that keep coming up?

  • I thank you for listening and I would like to just ask you a couple of relational intelligence questions.

  • How to engage people and create this relational capital.

  • And so I've noticed though, that when I start becoming more relational with people, things start to happen.

  • The data collected during the interviews were entered and managed in a relational database.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Numerous studies have demonstrated associations between victimization and psychological, social, and relational adjustment outcomes.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Thus, healing of physical ailments included spiritual and relational components, as well as attention to bodily symptoms.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

connected
vsrelational
2.5

Joined physically, like rooms that touch, or linked by a shared feeling

is about how two or more items interact or depend on each other
connectional
vsrelational
  • Specialized
6.8

Relating to links between parts, systems, or people

is about patterns of interaction or dependence rather than technical structures

Compounds

relational database
  • Specialized
1 3.9

A system that stores information in tables linked by keys

relational adjective
  • Specialized
8.1

A word that tells the type of a noun, not what it is like

Software that stores data in tables and lets people find and change it

How Connected

relational
19 5.6
related
2.3
unrelated
94 3.5

Surface Forms

relational positive

Morphology

relational = relation + al (transparent) = relation + al

The adjective is clearly formed from the noun 'relation' with the productive adjectival suffix '-al', so learners knowing 'relation' can infer 'relational'.

Etymology

Relational comes from relation, which means 'a connection'. Think of family relations or a relationship that links people or things. So relational means about the way two or more things or people are connected.