About to
Relatively and about to are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Relatively" instead an adverb phrase "About to".
Relatively
Relatively adverb - To some degree or extent.
About to and relatively are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "About to" instead an adverb "Relatively".
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Subverted in Mary Renault's The Charioteer - the main character believes Ralph is about to commit suicide, but manages to interfere in time, resulting in a relatively happy ending.
Source: Bury Your Gays -
Gut Punch: While the game gets darker in both atmosphere and music after escaping the asylum, things are relatively fine until you make it to the church, where a priest that was just about to tell Edna the truth of her past gets murdered by the Keymaster, who then must be killed to escape.
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Things were going relatively well, they were about to get engaged... but right before that, Date was run over by a car in front of his best friend and died.
Source: Star-Crossed Lovers
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