correlative
IPA: kˈɔrʌɫʌtɪv
noun
- (formal) Either of two correlative things.
- (grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form
adjective
- Mutually related; corresponding.
Advertisement
Examples of "correlative" in Sentences
- That is a correlative statement.
- For the word 'slave' is what logicians call the correlative of this word
- A head will be more accurately defined as the correlative of that which is
- Mystery signifies the hidden truth, veiled under this symbol, and now revealed; its correlative is revelation.
- The mutually related peculiarities may be termed correlative, and we therefore speak, in such cases, of correlative variability.
- And to endeavour to conceive a reality which no one knows, is to assert a relative term without its correlative, which is absurd; it is to posit an ideal which is opposed to nothing actual.
- A head will be more accurately defined as the correlative of that which is 'headed', than as that of an animal, for the animal does not have a head qua animal, since many animals have no head.
- Similarly, if the attribute 'winged' be withdrawn from 'the bird', 'the wing' will no longer be relative; for if the so-called correlative is not winged, it follows that 'the wing' has no correlative.
- These so called correlative constitutional rights include the right to a maximally safeguarded electoral system that provides the greatest protection against even the opportunity for tampering and the right to know that one's vote was fairly counted as cast.
- : -- Assuredly I escape; for if truth and knowledge are terms correlative and interdependent, as I maintain they are, then wherever knowledge is conceivable truth is conceivable, wherever knowledge is possible truth is possible, wherever knowledge is actual truth is actual.