relevant

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French relevant (“assisting”), from Latin relevāns, relevāntem, present active participle of relevō (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + levō (“lift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛləvənt/

Adjective

relevant (comparative more relevant, superlative most relevant)

1. Directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.

   His mother provided some relevant background information concerning his medical condition.

2. Not out of date; current.
   • 1973 December 20, “Hansen says Christmas time for thanks, hope”, in The Aberdeen Times^[1]:

     The message of Christmas is still relevant as we near the end of a troubled year and the beginning of an uncertain but challenging new year.

   • 2008, Scott Cooper, Fritz Grutzner, Birk Cooper, Tips and Traps for Marketing Your Business^[2], McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0071494892, page 39:

     Motorola was quickly losing the cell-phone battle to Nokia for a time. When they launched the RAZR phone and combined it with their "Hello Moto" campaign, it made the brand relevant again.

Synonyms

• applicable
• germane
• in point (legal)
• pertinent
• salient
• significant
• requisite

Antonyms

• irrelevant

Derived terms

Derived terms

• safety-relevant

Related terms

Related terms

• relevance
• relevancy
• relief

• relieve
• reliever

Translations

directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic

• Catalan: rellevant, pertinent
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有關 (zh), 有关 (zh) (yǒuguān), 相關 (zh), 相关 (zh) (xiāngguān)

• Czech: relevantní (cs)
• Dutch: relevant (nl)
• Estonian: seotud, asjakohane
• Finnish: oleellinen (fi), relevantti (fi), asiaankuuluva, olennainen (fi)
• French: pertinent (fr)
• Galician: relevante (gl)
• German: relevant (de)
• Hungarian: lényeges (hu), releváns (hu)
• Japanese: 適切 (ja) (てきせつ, tekisetsu), 関連した (ja) (かんれんした, kanren shita)

• Korean: 관련된 (ko) (gwallyeondoen)
• Maori: hāngai
• Norwegian: relevant (no)
• Polish: związany (pl), odpowiedni (pl), stosowny (pl)
• Portuguese: relevante (pt), pertinente (pt)
• Romanian: relevant (ro) m, pertinent (ro) m
• Russian: соотве́тствующий (ru) (sootvétstvujuščij), уме́стный (ru) (uméstnyj), (stilted) релева́нтный (ru) (relevántnyj), актуа́льный (ru) (aktuálʹnyj), относя́щийся к де́лу (otnosjáščijsja k délu), име́ющий отноше́ние (iméjuščij otnošénije)
• Spanish: pertinente (es), relevante (es)
• Swedish: relevant (sv)
• Turkish: alakalı (tr), ilgili (tr), ilişkili (tr) (law)
• Welsh: perthnasol (cy)

not out of date

• Hungarian: aktuális (hu), időszerű (hu)

Further reading

• relevant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• relevant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• levanter

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• audio

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Etymology

From Latin relevans, present active participle of relevō (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + levō (“lift”).

Adjective

relevant (comparative relevanter, superlative relevantst)

1. relevant

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French

Verb

relevant

1. present participle of relever

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

relevant (comparative relevanter, superlative am relevantesten)

1. relevant

Synonyms

• bedeutend, maßgeblich

Antonyms

• irrelevant, unbedeutend, unmaßgeblich

Declension

Positive forms of relevant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist relevant	sie ist relevant	es ist relevant	sie sind relevant
strong declension (without article)	nominative	relevanter	relevante	relevantes	relevante
	genitive	relevanten	relevanter	relevanten	relevanter
	dative	relevantem	relevanter	relevantem	relevanten
	accusative	relevanten	relevante	relevantes	relevante
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der relevante	die relevante	das relevante	die relevanten
	genitive	des relevanten	der relevanten	des relevanten	der relevanten
	dative	dem relevanten	der relevanten	dem relevanten	den relevanten
	accusative	den relevanten	die relevante	das relevante	die relevanten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein relevanter	eine relevante	ein relevantes	(keine) relevanten
	genitive	eines relevanten	einer relevanten	eines relevanten	(keiner) relevanten
	dative	einem relevanten	einer relevanten	einem relevanten	(keinen) relevanten
	accusative	einen relevanten	eine relevante	ein relevantes	(keine) relevanten

Comparative forms of relevant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist relevanter	sie ist relevanter	es ist relevanter	sie sind relevanter
strong declension (without article)	nominative	relevanterer	relevantere	relevanteres	relevantere
	genitive	relevanteren	relevanterer	relevanteren	relevanterer
	dative	relevanterem	relevanterer	relevanterem	relevanteren
	accusative	relevanteren	relevantere	relevanteres	relevantere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der relevantere	die relevantere	das relevantere	die relevanteren
	genitive	des relevanteren	der relevanteren	des relevanteren	der relevanteren
	dative	dem relevanteren	der relevanteren	dem relevanteren	den relevanteren
	accusative	den relevanteren	die relevantere	das relevantere	die relevanteren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein relevanterer	eine relevantere	ein relevanteres	(keine) relevanteren
	genitive	eines relevanteren	einer relevanteren	eines relevanteren	(keiner) relevanteren
	dative	einem relevanteren	einer relevanteren	einem relevanteren	(keinen) relevanteren
	accusative	einen relevanteren	eine relevantere	ein relevanteres	(keine) relevanteren

Superlative forms of relevant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist am relevantesten	sie ist am relevantesten	es ist am relevantesten	sie sind am relevantesten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	relevantester	relevanteste	relevantestes	relevanteste
	genitive	relevantesten	relevantester	relevantesten	relevantester
	dative	relevantestem	relevantester	relevantestem	relevantesten
	accusative	relevantesten	relevanteste	relevantestes	relevanteste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der relevanteste	die relevanteste	das relevanteste	die relevantesten
	genitive	des relevantesten	der relevantesten	des relevantesten	der relevantesten
	dative	dem relevantesten	der relevantesten	dem relevantesten	den relevantesten
	accusative	den relevantesten	die relevanteste	das relevanteste	die relevantesten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein relevantester	eine relevanteste	ein relevantestes	(keine) relevantesten
	genitive	eines relevantesten	einer relevantesten	eines relevantesten	(keiner) relevantesten
	dative	einem relevantesten	einer relevantesten	einem relevantesten	(keinen) relevantesten
	accusative	einen relevantesten	eine relevanteste	ein relevantestes	(keine) relevantesten

Further reading

• relevant in Duden online

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Latin

Verb

relevant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of relevō

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

relevant (neuter singular relevant, definite singular and plural relevante)

1. relevant

Antonyms

• irrelevant

Related terms

• relevans

References

• “relevant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

relevant (neuter singular relevant, definite singular and plural relevante)

1. relevant

Antonyms

• irrelevant

Related terms

• relevans

References

• “relevant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Adjective

relevant

1. relevant

Declension

Inflection of relevant
Indefinite/attributive	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	relevant	mer relevant	mest relevant
Neuter singular	relevant	mer relevant	mest relevant
Plural	relevanta	mer relevanta	mest relevanta
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	relevante	mer relevante	mest relevante
All	relevanta	mer relevanta	mest relevanta
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role.

Antonyms

• irrelevant

Related terms

• relevans