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corollary

/kɒˈɹɒləɹi/US/ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/

corollary noun: a gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.

Noun

corollary (plural corollaries)

  1. A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
  2. An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
    • Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.
    • […] he was indeed of the opinion that the spontaneous uprising of the working class would come to nothing unless the party was there to give it shape and direction. This was an obvious corollary of the party's role as the only possible vehicle of socialist consciousness.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
  3. A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
    • We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

Adjective

corollary (not comparable)

  1. Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
    • However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in...2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11
  2. (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.

corollary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

corollary in Hindi

proposition which follows easily
उपप्रमेय upapramey

corollary in Tamil

கிளைத்தேற்றம், துணை முடிபு, நியாயமான செலவு

corollary in Urdu

نتیجہ

corollary in Bengali

corollary
অনুসিদ্ধান্ত onuśiddhanto
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corollary in Malayalam
സ്വാഭാവികമായ അനുമാനം, സ്വാഭാവികഫലം, അനുസിദ്ധാന്തം, അനന്തരഫലം
corollary in Kannada
ಉಪಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ, ಅನುಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ, ದೊರೆಹೇಳ್ಮೆ, ಕೂಡುಹೇಳ್ಮೆ
corollary in Tagalog
hugpungin
corollary in Indonesian
akibat, teorema akibat, korolari
corollary in Persian
فرع

Examples of corollary in a sentence

  • We obtain as a corollary that plactic monoids for any semisimple Lie algebra satisfy homological finiteness properties..
  • Better yet, we may take the coalgebra of the preceding corollary to be a comatrix coalgebra.
  • The necessity to marry out is always a corollary to the prohibition to marry sisters.

All 18 example sentences with corollary

Forms of corollary

pluralcorollaries

Plural of corollary: corollaries

Origin of corollary

From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).

Words formed from corollary

Questions about corollary

What does corollary mean?
Corollary means a gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
What is corollary in Hindi?
Corollary in Hindi is उपप्रमेय (upapramey). See Corollary meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is corollary?
Corollary can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce corollary?
Corollary is pronounced /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/.
What is the plural of corollary?
The plural of corollary is corollaries.

Words near corollary in the dictionary

  1. corollae
  2. corollarial
  3. corollarially
  4. corollaries
  5. corollarily
  6. corollary
  7. corollary relief
  8. corollas
  9. corollate
  10. corollated
  11. corollet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: corollary (page history and authors); corollary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corollary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অনুসিদ্ধান্ত (Bengali) (page history and authors); corollary (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); corollary (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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