correlary
correlary is the misspelling of corollary.
Meaning of corollary
Noun
corollary (plural corollaries)
- A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
- 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.
- 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.
Origin of correlary
From the influence of the etymologically unrelated but semantically close correlate.
Questions about correlary
- What is correlary the misspelling of?
- Correlary is the misspelling of corollary.
Words near correlary in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: correlary (page history and authors); corollary (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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