Word Meanings - MUTUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More. Happy

Additional info about word: MUTUAL

1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More. Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love. Milton. A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters. G. Eliot. 2. Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort. Burke. A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Bentley. Note: This use of mutual as synonymous with common is inconsistent with the idea of interchange, or reciprocal relation, which properly belongs to it; but the word has been so used by many writers of high authority. The present tendency is toward a careful discrimination. Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have mutual ancestors P. Harrison. Mutual insurance, agreement among a number of persons to insure each other against loss, as by fire, death, or accident. -- Mutual insurance company, one which does a business of insurance on the mutual principle, the policy holders sharing losses and profits pro rata. Syn. -- Reciprocal; interchanged; common.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUTUAL)

• Reciprocal
• Alternate
• interchanged
• mutual
• Interchangeable
• reflexive

Related words: (words related to MUTUAL)

• RECIPROCALLY
  In the manner of reciprocals. Reciprocally proportional (Arith. & Alg.), proportional, as two variable quantities, so that the one shall have a constant ratio to the reciprocal of the other. (more info) 1. In a reciprocal manner; so that
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• ALTERNATENESS
  The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
• RECIPROCAL
  Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action. (more info) 1. Recurring in vicissitude; alternate. 2. Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due
• RECIPROCALNESS
  The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
• MUTUAL
  1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More. Happy
• REFLEXIVE
  Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond. 2. Implying censure. "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South. (more info) 1. Etym:
• INTERCHANGE
  1. To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services. I shall interchange My waned state for Henry's regal crown. Shak. 2. To
• MUTUALITY
  Reciprocity of consideration. Wharton. (more info) 1. The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.
• ALTERNATE
  Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. Gray. Alternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles , the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on
• INTERCHANGEMENT
  Mutual transfer; exchange. Shak.
• MUTUALLY
  In a mutual manner.
• ALTERNATELY
  By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent. (more info) 1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
• MUTUALISM
  The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare. F. Harrison. H. Spencer. Mallock.
• INTERCHANGEABLE
  1. Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution. "Interchangeable warrants." Bacon. 2. Following each other in alternate succession; as, the four interchangeable seasons. Holder. -- In`ter*change"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`ter*change"a*bly, adv.
• RECIPROCALITY
  The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness.
• SUBALTERNATE
  1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
• INTERMUTUAL
  Mutual. Daniel. -- In`ter*mu"tu*al*ly, adv.
• TRANSMUTUAL
  Reciprocal; commutual. Coleridge.
• COMMUTUAL
  Mutual; reciprocal; united. There, with commutual zeal, we both had strove. Pope.