noun
definition
Either of two correlative things.
definition
(grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form
Examples of correlatives in a Sentence
It has been argued that the elaborate structural adaptations of the nervous system which are the corporeal correlatives of Theory complicated instincts must have been slowly built up by the transmission to offspring of acquired ex perience, that is to say, of acquired brain structure.
Here responsibility and privilege are correlatives.
The atomic theory, and its correlatives - the laws of constant and multiple proportions - had been shown to possess absolute validity so far as well-characterized inorganic compounds were concerned; but it was open to question whether organic compounds obeyed the same laws.
In the Anti-Corn Law movement the two speakers were the complements and correlatives of each other.