relevant.
Related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.
Meaning & usage
Related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.
Related, connected, or pertinent to a topic. Directly related, connected, or pertinent, with important ramifications or implications.
His mother provided some relevant background information concerning his medical condition.
Not out of date; current.
Famous, popular, or noteworthy in a contemporary context.
Where this word comes from
From Scots relevant meaning "legally pertinent," used in Scottish legal circles starting in the early 1500s, and first used in English in the 1700s. Borrowed from Latin relevāns, relevāntem, present active participle of relevō (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + levō (“lift”).
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