relative-in-law

Questions about relative-in-law

What does relative-in-law mean?

relative-in-law means "a relative by marriage".

How many syllables are in relative-in-law?

relative-in-law has 5 syllables: re-la-ti-ve-in--law. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for relative-in-law?

Close synonyms include in-law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is relative-in-law a common word?

relative-in-law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.