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Webster 1913 Edition

Correlative

Cor-rel′a-tive

(k?r-r?l′?-t?v)
,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
corrélatif
.]
Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are
correlative
terms.
Hume.

Cor-rel′a-tive

,
Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.
Locke.
Spiritual things and spiritual men are
correlatives
.
Spelman.
2.
(Gram.)
The antecedent of a pronoun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Correlative

CORRELATIVE

,
Adj.
[L. Con and relativus. See Relate and Relative.] Having a reciprocal relation, so that the existence of one in a certain state depends on the existence of another; as father and son, husband and wife, are correlative terms. The term son is correlative to that of father.

CORRELATIVE

,
Noun.
That which is opposed to something else in a certain relation. The son is the correlative of his father. Darkness and light are correlatives. Rest is the correlative of motion.

Definition 2024

correlative

correlative

See also: corrélative

English

Adjective

correlative ‎(comparative more correlative, superlative most correlative)

  1. mutually related; corresponding
    • 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, ISBN 0-06-091151-4, page 200:
      If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently
      game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish be-
      tween primary and secondary gains disappears. The correla-
      tive       necessity to estimate the relative significance of physio-
      logical needs and dammed-up impulses on the one hand, and
      of social and interpersonal factors on the other, also vanishes.
      Since needs and impulses cannot be said to exist in human
      social life without specified rules for dealing with them, in-
      stinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biologi-
      cal rules, but must also be viewed in terms of their psycho-
      social significance—that is, as parts of the game.

Translations

Noun

correlative ‎(plural correlatives)

  1. Either of two correlative things.
  2. (grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form

Translations

Italian

Adjective

correlative

  1. feminine plural of correlativo

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