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corresponsive

corresponsive adjective: jointly or mutually responsive: exchanging.

Adjective

corresponsive (comparative more corresponsive, superlative most corresponsive)

  1. jointly or mutually responsive: exchanging
  2. responsive to stimulus: responding, answering
  3. equivalent or similar in character: corresponding
    • Now on Dardan plains / The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch / Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city, / Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, / And Antenorides, with massy staples / And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, / Sperr up the sons of Troy.1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, prologue

Forms of corresponsive

comparativemore corresponsive
superlativemost corresponsive

Origin of corresponsive

Formed as: correspons- (perfect passive participial stem of the Medieval Latin correspondeō) + -ive; compare responsive.

Words formed from corresponsive

  • corresponsive conjunction

Questions about corresponsive

What does corresponsive mean?
Corresponsive means jointly or mutually responsive: exchanging.
What part of speech is corresponsive?
Corresponsive is an adjective.

Words near corresponsive in the dictionary

  1. corresponding author
  2. corresponding authors
  3. correspondingly
  4. correspondings
  5. corresponds
  6. corresponsive
  7. corresponsively
  8. corretto
  9. correttos
  10. correus
  11. correus debendi

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