Almost and Relative

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Almost adjective - Being such only when compared to something else.

Usage example: burdened with impossibly high expectations, the movie came to be regarded as an almost failure

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Relative and almost are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Relative" instead an adjective "Almost".

Relative adjective - Being such only when compared to something else.

Usage example: after being crammed into a one-bedroom apartment, they lived in relative comfort in a two-bedroom house

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Almost and relative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Almost" instead an adjective "Relative".

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai has old cartoons playing somewhere in almost every scene featuring the Vargo family, symbolic of their bumbling and (relative) toothlessness.

Source: The Public Domain Channel
He's only short relative to other superheroes, but she is almost two meters tall.

Source: Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
Even though, tragically, almost all of them just so happened to have a relative in the Philippines, and not particularly knowledgeable about Filipino culture itself.

Source: Useful Notes / Misplaced Nationalism

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