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CORRELATIVE

• CORRELATIVE (noun)
The noun CORRELATIVE has 1 sense:

1. either of two correlated variables

Familiarity information: CORRELATIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• CORRELATIVE (adjective)
The adjective CORRELATIVE has 2 senses:

1. mutually related
2. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation

Familiarity information: CORRELATIVE used as an adjective is rare.

• CORRELATIVE (noun)

Sense 1

correlative ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Either of two correlated variables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

correlate; correlative

Hypernyms ("correlative" is a kind of...):

variable; variable quantity (a quantity that can assume any of a set of values)

• CORRELATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

correlative ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Mutually related

Synonyms:

correlate; correlated; correlative

Similar:

related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)

Sense 2

correlative ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation

Context example:

correlative conjunctions

Similar:

mutual; reciprocal (concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics or morphology))

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