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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cor•rel•a•tive (kə rel′ə tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - so related that each implies or complements the other.
- being in correlation;
mutually related. - British Terms, Grammar[Gram.]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.
n. - either of two things, as two terms, that are correlative.
- Grammar, British Termsa correlative expression.
Also,[esp. Brit.,] corelative. - Medieval Latin correlātīvus. See cor-, relative
- 1520–30
cor•rel′a•tive•ly, adv. cor•rel′a•tive•ness, cor•rel′a•tiv′i•ty, n. |