[syn: correlative, correlate, correlated]
2. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation;
- Example: "correlative conjunctions"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\ (k?r-r?l"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F.
corr['e]latif.]
Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
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Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and
citizen, are correlative terms. --Hume.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\, n.
1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation,
or is correlated, to some other person or thing. --Locke.
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Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives.
--Spelman.
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2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
correlative
adj 1: mutually related [syn: correlative, correlate,
correlated]
2: expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation;
"correlative conjunctions"
n 1: either of two or more related or complementary variables
[syn: correlate, correlative]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "correlative":
accessory, accompanying, affinitive, agnate, akin, allied,
analogical, analogous, appertaining, associated, associative,
attendant, attending, cognate, coincident, collatable, collateral,
combined, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative,
concomitant, concurrent, congeneric, congenerous, congenial,
conjoint, connate, connatural, connected, connective, conspecific,
corelated, corelational, corelative, correlated, correlational,
coupled, en rapport, enate, fellow, joined, joint, linking,
matchable, much at one, mutual, paired, parallel, pertaining,
pertinent, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable,
referring, relating, relational, relative, similar, simultaneous,
sympathetic, twin
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
CORRELATIVE. This term is used to designate those things, one of which
cannot exist without another; for example, father and child; mountain and
valley, &c. Law, obligation, right, and duty, are therefore correlative to
each other.