Mutual
['mjuːtʃʊəl;-tjʊəl] or ['mjutʃuəl]
Definition
(a.) Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.
(a.) Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort.
Editor: Stephen
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Reciprocal, interchanged, correlative, reciprocally given and received.
Editor: Spence
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reciprocal, common, interchangeable, alternate
ANT:One-sided, unreciprocated, unmutual
Inputed by Cleo
Definition
adj. interchanged: in return: given and received equally affecting two or more: common conjoint shared alike as in 'mutual friend.'—ns. Mū′tualism Mutual′ity.—adv. Mū′tually.—Mutual accounts accounts in which each of two have charges against the other; Mutual insurance a reciprocal contract among several persons to indemnify each other against certain designated losses the system of a company in which policy-holders receive a certain share of the profits &c.; Mutual wall a wall equally belonging to each of two houses.
Typist: Weldon
Examples
- The want of relation in the ideas breaks the relation of the impressions, and by such a separation prevents their mutual operation and influence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- His father was Sillerton Jackson's uncle, his mother a Pennilow of Boston; on each side there was wealth and position, and mutual suitability. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And there is no doubt the liking is mutual, said Moore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He came and was put in my care for the purpose of a mutual exchange of ideas and for a report by me as to his competency in the matter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I, however, want you to write to our mutual friend, Mr Carriston, and enclose a note of mine meant for the eyes of Eunice alone. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Well, there are things which are placed beyond the pale of discussion; and I thought this was specially so, and by mutual agreement. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It puts the student in the habitual attitude of finding points of contact and mutual bearings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I appeal to our mutual friend Smallweed whether he has or has not heard me remark that I can't make him out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That sort of mutual friction might go on for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our natures dovetailed: mutual affection--of the strongest kind--was the result. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mutual confidence will sustain us to the end! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Uke causes still produce like effects; in the same manner as in the mutual action of the elements and powers of nature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- She was not at all sure that it was this mutual unison in separateness that she wanted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typed by Aldo