a. | 1. | Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. |
n. | 1. | One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. |
2. | (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun. |
Noun | 1. | correlative - either of two correlated variables Synonyms: correlate |
Adj. | 1. | correlative - mutually related Synonyms: correlate, correlated |
2. | correlative - expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions" |
CORRELATIVE. This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another; for example, father and child; mountain and valley, &c. Law, obligation, right, and duty, are therefore correlative to each other.
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