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say it: KAW-ruh-ler-ee
corollary is a noun meaning "a practical consequence that follows naturally". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a practical consequence that follows naturally
“blind jealousy is a frequent corollary of passionate love”
(logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for corollary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.