relevant

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

rele·vant AW BrE [ˈreləvənt] NAmE [ˈreləvənt] adjective
1. closely connected with the subject you are discussing or the situation you are thinking about
•a relevant suggestion/question/point
• Do you have the relevant experience?
• Send me all the relevant information.
•~ to sth/sb These comments are not directly relevant to this inquiry.
Opp: ↑irrelevant
2. ~ (to sth/sb) having ideas that are valuable and useful to people in their lives and work
• Her novel is still relevant today.
• How relevant is religious education to most children?
Derived Words: ↑relevance ▪ ↑relevantly

Word Origin:
early 16th cent. (as a Scots legal term meaning ‘legally pertinent’): from medieval Latin relevant- ‘raising up’, from Latin relevare.

Thesaurus:
relevant [relevance relevant relevantly] adj.
•These comments are not directly relevant to this inquiry.
applicable • |approving to the point • |formal pertinent • |formal law material •
Opp: irrelevant
relevant/applicable/pertinent/material to/for sb/sth
relevant/pertinent to do sth
a relevant/pertinent/material point/fact/factor

Example Bank:
•Is there a morally relevant difference between human life and animal life?
•Past imperial glories are hardly relevant to the present day.
•Resist the temptation to discuss topics that are not strictly relevant to the essay question.
•The article was only marginally relevant.
•information relevant to this case
•vocationally relevant qualifications
•He made one or two highly relevant points.
•I don't think that question is really very relevant.
•These comments are not directly relevant to this enquiry.
•They are looking for someone with relevant experience in childcare.
•We should consider everything, even if it doesn't seem immediately relevant.
•You can get the relevant information from your admissions officer.