correlative
so related that each implies or complements the other.
being in correlation; mutually related.
Grammar. answering to or complementing one another and regularly used in association, as either and or, not only and but.
Biology. (of a typical structure of an organism) found in correlation with another.
either of two things, as two terms, that are correlative.
Grammar. a correlative expression.
Origin of correlative
1- Also especially British, co·rel·a·tive .
Other words from correlative
- cor·rel·a·tive·ly, adverb
- cor·rel·a·tive·ness, cor·rel·a·tiv·i·ty, noun
- non·cor·rel·a·tive, adjective
- non·cor·rel·a·tive·ly, adverb
- non·cor·rel·a·tive·ness, noun
- un·cor·rel·a·tive, adjective
- un·cor·rel·a·tive·ly, adverb
- un·cor·rel·a·tive·ness, noun
- un·cor·rel·a·tiv·i·ty, noun
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How to use correlative in a sentence
And this correlativity of knowledge and reality finds linguistic confirmation in the terms 'subject' and 'object'.
Kant's Theory of Knowledge | Harold Arthur PrichardConcerning the strict correlativity of subject and predicate, data and hypothesis, see p. 34.
Studies in Logical Theory | John DeweyFormal identity and non-contradiction signify, in experimental logic, the complete correlativity of data and hypothesis.
Creative Intelligence | John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
British Dictionary definitions for correlative
/ (kɒˈrɛlətɪv) /
in mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relationship; corresponding
denoting words, usually conjunctions, occurring together though not adjacently in certain grammatical constructions, as for example neither and nor in such sentences as he neither ate nor drank
either of two things that are correlative
a correlative word
Derived forms of correlative
- correlatively, adverb
- correlativeness or correlativity, noun
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