mutual
Academic Word List, sublist 9.
About 24.05 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having the same relationship, each to each other.
They were mutual enemies.
- adjective Collective, done or held in common.
Mutual insurance.
- adjective Reciprocal.
They had mutual fear of each other.
- adjective Possessed in common.
They had been introduced by a mutual friend.
- adjective Owned by the members.
- noun A mutual fund.
- noun A mutual organization.
- noun Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts.
Similar words
common reciprocal shared jointly concerted interdependence correlative together interrelationship interactive
Often followed by
funds fund understanding respect aid benefit agreement assistance trust support
Word family
mutually mutuals
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