- used to describe feelings that two or more people have for each other equally, or actions that affect two or more people equally
- mutual respect/understanding
- mutual support/aid
- They parted by mutual consent.
- I don't like her, and I think the feeling is mutual (= she doesn't like me either).
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- [only before noun] shared by two or more people
- We met at the home of a mutual friend.
- They soon discovered a mutual interest in music.
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Old French mutuel, from Latin mutuus ‘mutual, borrowed’; related to mutare ‘to change’.
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