IT'S ALL / EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE

means that the world is in the eye of the beholder; it all depends on how you look at things; all people look at things from a different perspective and have differing opinions or views about someone, something, etc.
Everything is quantifiable in terms of individual perception.

To him, the new house is beautiful and grandiose in appearance; to me, it's ugly and pretentious. It's all relative, then, isn't it?
You think you're poor? Then take a look at the skid row bums living in the sewers downtown. Everything is relative.

by weave September 14, 2003

time and relative dimensions in space

T.A.R.D.I.S. It refers to the Gallifreyan time and space travel capsule which is dimensionally transcendental (bigger on the inside). The most common example is the one used by the Gallifreyan Time Lord known as "The Doctor", that is permanently disguised as a 1960s police telephone box.

Susan: I made up the name TARDIS from the initials - Time And Relative Dimensions In Space.

by fortytwo42 July 16, 2014

relatives

People who are related to you, whether you like it or not.

I hate most of my dad's relatives. they're so mean to me.

by Anonymous June 18, 2003

Relative Awkwardness

Mostly happens around Thanksgiving or Christmas time when you see your family relatives you haven't seen in a year and it's completely awkward and you have nothing to talk about.

Sitting at the thanksgiving table causally eating my pumpkin pie with my relatives, we have nothing to talk about, its relative awkwardness

by Archibald Jones September 29, 2009

relative futility

As it pertains to economic "Law of Diminishing Returns", and Maslow
relative futility is the measure of fucks you are obligated to risk on

a useless venture.
This is reached when the odds of a return on the investment = LESS THAN ZERO

The relative futility of meeting an active brain cell in this dump is absolute,

so I save 10 bucks if I PASS on that useless venture!
Karmic return = Finding 8$ STNG Collector's set "Dixon Hill" and "Gloria"
at nerd shop down the street = "SO MUCH WIN"

by Thygeekgoddess March 11, 2017

Realtime shitposting

Sitting on the toilet while writing a spiteful forum post and then pressing the post button just as you back one out.

There was a certain force and je ne sais quoi to Sam's post, he must have been realtime shitposting.

by Sidney's natural resources August 25, 2019

relative motion nigger theory

When one nigger runs, all the other niggers within a 20-meter radius also run because they assume a white police officer is chasing him.

Bob: "Why do all niggers run together even though none of them committed a crime? It takes fucking forever to sort them out at the police station and half the time we just charge all of them with rape."

John: "Thats the relative motion nigger theory in full effect."

by anonymous March 11, 2022