correspondingly

US/ˌkɔ.ɹəˈspɑn.dɪŋ.li/

adverbB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,987 of 15,258mostly written

Correspondingly means in a matching way. Prices rose and wages fell correspondingly.

It claims the two things moved together rather than that one caused the other. Correspondingly is a careful word and belongs to writing rather than to speech.

Definitions of correspondingly

1adverbcorrespondinglyIn a matching way.B2+
“The hours went up and the pay correspondingly did not.”

correspondingly is a manner.

Where it comes from

From corresponding + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

correspondingly in the wild

Access by hikers, hunters, and others, is correspondingly limited, although the summit can be reached via public lands on the north side.
Chicoma Mountain
The engine and most of the mechanical parts were unchanged, but the car was shorter, lighter, and correspondingly made more of its 2 horsepower.
Peugeot Type 5
The Peugeot Type 81 was a fairly large car, and with among the largest units of any contemporary Peugeot model, a correspondingly large production effort of the time.
Peugeot Type 81
The country is one of the world's poorest countries and the film industry is correspondingly small.
Cinema of the Central African Republic

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