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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

accessory, accompanying, affinitive, agnate, akin, allied, analogical, analogous, appertaining, associated, associative, attendant, attending, cognate, coincident, collatable, collateral, combined, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, concomitant, concurrent, congeneric, congenerous, congenial, conjoint, connate, connatural, connected, connective, conspecific, corelated, corelational, corelative, correlated, correlational, coupled, en rapport, enate, fellow, joined, joint, linking, matchable, much at one, mutual, paired, parallel, pertaining, pertinent, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable, referring, relating, relational, relative, similar, simultaneous, sympathetic, twin

Dictionary Results for correlative:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

correlative
    adj 1: mutually related [syn: correlative, correlate,
           correlated]
    2: expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation;
       "correlative conjunctions"
    n 1: either of two or more related or complementary variables
         [syn: correlate, correlative]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\ (k?r-r?l"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F.
   corr['e]latif.]
   Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
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         Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and
         citizen, are correlative terms.          --Hume.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation,
      or is correlated, to some other person or thing. --Locke.
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            Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives.
                                                  --Spelman.
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   2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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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