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correlative

correlative adjective: mutually related; corresponding.

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

Noun

correlative (plural correlatives)

  1. (formal) Either of two correlative things.
    • The actual motivation for this separation was a curious mixture of arrogance and respect: the new arrogance of the administrators abroad who faced 'backward populations' or 'lower breeds' found its correlative in the respect of old-fashioned statesmen at home who felt that no nation had the right...1951, Hannah Arendt, “The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace...
    Synonyms:
    equivalent, analogue
  2. A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form

correlative meaning in Urdu and Indonesian

correlative in Urdu

لازم و ملزوم

correlative in Indonesian

mutually related
korelatif

Synonyms of correlative

Forms of correlative

Adjective
comparativemore correlative
superlativemost correlative
Noun
pluralcorrelatives

Origin of correlative

From correlate + -ive or cor- + relative.

Words formed from correlative

Questions about correlative

What does correlative mean?
Correlative means mutually related; corresponding.
What is correlative in Urdu?
Correlative in Urdu is لازم و ملزوم. See Correlative meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is correlative?
Correlative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near correlative in the dictionary

  1. correlationists
  2. correlationless
  3. correlations
  4. correlationship
  5. correlationships
  6. correlative
  7. correlatively
  8. correlativeness
  9. correlatives
  10. correlativism
  11. correlativity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: correlative (page history and authors); correlative (Urdu 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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