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corelative

corelative is the alternative form of correlative.

Meaning of correlative

Adjective

correlative (comparative more correlative, superlative most correlative)

  1. Mutually related; corresponding.
    • If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish between primary and secondary gains disappears. The correlative necessity to estimate the relative significance of physiological needs and dammed-up impulses on the one hand, and of...1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 200

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Forms of corelative

Adjective
comparativemore corelative
superlativemost corelative
Noun
pluralcorelatives

Questions about corelative

What is corelative the alternative form of?
Corelative is the alternative form of correlative.

Words near corelative in the dictionary

  1. coreigning
  2. coreigns
  3. corelation
  4. corelational
  5. corelations
  6. corelative
  7. corelatives
  8. corelborin
  9. corelease
  10. coreleased
  11. coreleases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corelative (page history and authors); correlative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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