Correlative

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Mutually related; corresponding.

    "If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish between primary and secondary gains disappears. The correlative necessity to estimate the relative significance of physiological 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, instinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biological rules, but must also be viewed in terms of their psychosocial significance—that is, as parts of the game."

Adjective
  1. 1
    expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation wordnet
  2. 2
    mutually related wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Either of two correlative things. formal

    "The actual motivation for this separation was a curious mixture of arrogance and respect: the new arrogance of the administrators abroad who faced 'backward populations' or 'lower breeds' found its correlative in the respect of old-fashioned statesmen at home who felt that no nation had the right to impose its law upon a foreign people."

  2. 2
    either of two or more related or complementary variables wordnet
  3. 3
    A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form

Etymology

Etymology 1

From correlate + -ive or cor- + relative.

Etymology 2

From correlate + -ive or cor- + relative.

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: correlative