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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\ (k?r-r?l"?-t?v), adjective [Cf. F. corr['e]latif.] Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. --Hume.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Correlative \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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
correlative
adjective
1: mutually related [syn: {correlate}, {correlated}]
2: expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions"
noun: either of two correlated variables [syn: {correlate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "correlative": 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
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