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complementary

adj. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"

complementary

adj. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"

interchangeable

adj. "reciprocal electric outlets"

supplementary, supplemental, complemental, completing

adj. acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)

synonymous

adj. (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same

vindicatory, retributive, retributory, avenging

adj. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"

complementary, interchangeable

adj. "reciprocal electric outlets"

correlative

adj. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions"

interactive, interactional

adj. capable of acting on or influencing each other

inverse

adj. opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity ; "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"

mutual

adj. experienced or expressed by each toward the other: "mutual trust"

reciprocating, reciprocatory

adj. moving alternately backward and forward

reciprocative

adj. given or done or owed to each other

requited

adj. returned in kind: "requited love"

retaliative, retaliatory

adj. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"

contradictory

adj. of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms"

contrary

adj. of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false; "`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms"

incompatible, contrastive

adj. of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

converse

adj. of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other; "`parental' and `filial' are converse terms"

vindicatory, retributive, retributory, avenging

adj. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"

complementary

adj. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"

correlative

adj. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions"

interactive, interactional

adj. capable of acting on or influencing each other

inverse

adj. opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity ; "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"

mutual

adj. experienced or expressed by each toward the other: "mutual trust"

reciprocating, reciprocatory

adj. moving alternately backward and forward

reciprocative

adj. given or done or owed to each other

requited

adj. returned in kind: "requited love"

retaliative, retaliatory

adj. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"

incidental, nonessential

adj. not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA

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