Meanings
correct1
comparative more correct · superlative most correct
- Free from error; true; accurate.
We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.
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Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10
Synonyms: faithful, right · Antonyms: incorrect, inaccurate, wrong, bastard, counterfactual, erroneous, fallacious, false
- With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
Synonyms: well-behaved, well-mannered, civil, gracious, civilized, complaisant, courteous, cultivated · Antonyms: rude, uncouth, aweless, improper, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold, bumptious
- Correctly.
Hope I spelt your name correct.
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
Synonyms: OK
plural corrects
- A correct response.
Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the […] If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or […]
2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching
correct2
present singular third person corrects · participle present correcting · participle past corrected · past corrected · first person past singular corrected · archaic present second person singular correctest · past second person singular corrected · archaic past second person singular correctedst · present singular third person corrects · archaic present singular third person correcteth · past singular third person corrected · past plural corrected · past subjunctive corrected · participle present correcting · participle past corrected
- transitiveTo make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
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You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.
Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27Synonyms: amend, rectify, amend, fix, fix up, furbish, retrieve, make whole
- transitiveTo discipline; to punish.
Synonyms: chasten, gruel, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on, fix someone's wagon
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveFree from error; true; accurate.
adjectiveWith good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
interjectionUsed to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
verbTo make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
verbTo discipline; to punish.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivefree from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
adjectivecorrect in opinion or judgment
verbcensure severely
verbadjust for
verbpunish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
verbalter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
correct · adjective, adverb, interjection, noun
- Latincorrectus“improved, amended, correct”
- Frenchcorrect
- Englishcorrect
Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
Full word history & related roots →correct · verb
- Latincorrectus
- Anglo-Normancorrecter
- Middle Englishcorrecten
- Englishcorrect
From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
More words from Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans reg
- regfree from error
Ancient Greek ὀρθός
- ὀρθός (orthós)free from error
Arabic صَحِيح, صَوَاب
- صَحِيح (ṣaḥīḥ)free from error
- صَوَاب (ṣawāb)free from error
- صَح (ṣaḥ)free from error
- صَحَّحَ (ṣaḥḥaḥa)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Basque zuzendu
- zuzenduto make something become right that was previously wrong
Bulgarian ве́рен, пра́вилен
- ве́рен (véren)free from error
- пра́вилен (právilen)free from error
- възпи́тан (văzpítan)with good manners
- коре́ктен (korékten)with good manners
- поправям (popravjam)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- кориги́рам (korigíram)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Catalan correcte, condret
- correctefree from error
- condretfree from error
- corregirto make something become right that was previously wrong
Chinese Cantonese 啱
- 啱 (ngaam¹)free from error
Chinese Mandarin 正確 /正确, 對 /对
- 正確 /正确 (zhèngquè)free from error
- 對 /对 (duì)free from error
- 修正 (xiūzhèng)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- 改正 (gǎizhèng)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- 糾正 /纠正 (jiūzhèng)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Czech správný, slušný
- správnýfree from error
- slušnýwith good manners
- korektníwith good manners
- opravitto make something become right that was previously wrong
Danish korrekt, rigtig
- korrektfree from error
- rigtigfree from error
Dutch correct, juist
- correctfree from error
- juistfree from error
- correctwith good manners
- welgemanierdwith good manners
- welopgevoedwith good manners
- goedgemanierdwith good manners
- corrigerento make something become right that was previously wrong
- verbeterento make something become right that was previously wrong
Esperanto ĝusta, prava
- ĝustafree from error
- pravafree from error
- korektafree from error
- korektito make something become right that was previously wrong
Estonian õige
- õigefree from error
Finnish oikea, oikeellinen
- oikeafree from error
- oikeellinenfree from error
- korrektiwith good manners
- asiallinenwith good manners
- korjatato make something become right that was previously wrong
- oikaistato make something become right that was previously wrong
French correct, corriger
- correctfree from error
- corrigerto make something become right that was previously wrong
German korrekt, richtig
- korrektfree from error
- richtigfree from error
- einwandfreifree from error
- einwandfreiwith good manners
- ordnungsgemäßwith good manners
- zutreffendwith good manners
- ausbessernto make something become right that was previously wrong
- korrigierento make something become right that was previously wrong
- richtigstellento make something become right that was previously wrong
- berichtigento make something become right that was previously wrong
- nachregeln Tech.to make something become right that was previously wrong
Greek σωστός, σωστός
- σωστός (sostós)free from error
- σωστός (sostós)with good manners
- διορθώνω (diorthóno)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Hawaiian pololei
- pololeifree from error
Hebrew נָכוֹן, נְכוֹנָה
- נָכוֹן (nakhon)free from error
- נְכוֹנָה (nekhona)free from error
- תיקן (tikén)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Hindi सही, ठीक
- सही (sahī)free from error
- ठीक (ṭhīk)free from error
- सही करना (sahī karnā)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Hungarian hibátlan, helyes
- hibátlanfree from error
- helyesfree from error
- illőwith good manners
- korrektwith good manners
- kijavítto make something become right that was previously wrong
- helyesbítto make something become right that was previously wrong
- korrigálto make something become right that was previously wrong
Icelandic rétt, leiðrétta
- réttfree from error
- leiðréttato make something become right that was previously wrong
Indonesian tepat
- tepatfree from error
Irish beacht, beachtaigh
- beachtfree from error
- beachtaighto make something become right that was previously wrong
- ceartaighto make something become right that was previously wrong
Italian corretto, esatto
- correttofree from error
- esattofree from error
- correttowith good manners
- ineccepibilewith good manners
- correggereto make something become right that was previously wrong
- emendareto make something become right that was previously wrong
- rettificareto make something become right that was previously wrong
- correggereto inform someone of their error
- precisareto inform someone of their error
- puntualizzareto inform someone of their error
Japanese 正しい, 正解
- 正しい (tadashii)free from error
- 正解 (seikai)free from error
- 正す (tadasu)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- 直す (naosu)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- 修正する (shūsei-suru)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- 是正する (zesei-suru)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- 訂正する (teisei-suru)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Korean 옳다, 맞다
- 옳다 (olta)free from error
- 맞다 (matda)free from error
- 바르다 (bareuda)free from error
- 정확하다 (jeonghwakhada)free from error
- 교정하다 (gyojeonghada)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Latin correctus, corrigō
- correctusfree from error
- corrigōto make something become right that was previously wrong
- ēmendōto make something become right that was previously wrong
Latvian pareizs
- pareizsfree from error
Lithuanian teisingas
- teisingasfree from error
Malay benar, betul
- benarfree from error
- betulfree from error
- benarkanto make something become right that was previously wrong
- betulkanto make something become right that was previously wrong
Māori tika, tika
- tikafree from error
- tikawith good manners
- tītereto make something become right that was previously wrong
- whakatikato make something become right that was previously wrong
- tītereto inform someone of their error
Norwegian riktig
- riktigfree from error
Persian درست
- درست (dorost)free from error
Polish prawidłowy, właściwy
- prawidłowyfree from error
- właściwyfree from error
- poprawnyfree from error
- poprawiaćto make something become right that was previously wrong
- poprawićto make something become right that was previously wrong
Portuguese correto, certo
- corretofree from error
- certofree from error
- comportadowith good manners
- educadowith good manners
- corrigirto make something become right that was previously wrong
Romanian corect, corect
- corectfree from error
- corectwith good manners
- corectato make something become right that was previously wrong
Russian пра́вильный, ве́рный
- пра́вильный (právilʹnyj)free from error
- ве́рный (vérnyj)free from error
- корре́ктный (korréktnyj)free from error
- воспи́танный (vospítannyj)with good manners
- корре́ктный (korréktnyj)with good manners
- исправля́ть (ispravljátʹ)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- испра́вить (isprávitʹ)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- корректи́ровать (korrektírovatʹ)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Scottish Gaelic cuir ceart, comharraich
- cuir ceartto make something become right that was previously wrong
- comharraichto make something become right that was previously wrong
Slovak správny, opraviť
- správnyfree from error
- opraviťto make something become right that was previously wrong
Spanish correcto, corregir
- correctofree from error
- corregirto make something become right that was previously wrong
Swedish korrekt, riktig
- korrektfree from error
- riktigfree from error
- rättfree from error
- felfrifree from error
- korrektwith good manners
- rättato make something become right that was previously wrong
- korrigerato make something become right that was previously wrong
Tagalog tama, wasto
- tamafree from error
- wastowith good manners
Tamil திருத்து
- திருத்து (tiruttu)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Thai ถูก, แก้ไข
- ถูก (tùuk)free from error
- แก้ไข (gɛ̂ɛ-kǎi)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Turkish doğru, düzeltmek
- doğrufree from error
- düzeltmekto make something become right that was previously wrong
Ukrainian пра́вильний, коре́ктний
- пра́вильний (právylʹnyj)free from error
- коре́ктний (koréktnyj)free from error
- ви́хований (výxovanyj)with good manners
- ґре́чний (gréčnyj)with good manners
- коре́ктний (koréktnyj)with good manners
- виправля́ти (vypravljáty)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- ви́правити (výpravyty)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- коригува́ти (koryhuváty)to make something become right that was previously wrong
- скоригува́ти (skoryhuváty)to make something become right that was previously wrong
Urdu صحیح, ٹھیک
- صحیح (sahīh)free from error
- ٹھیک (ṭhīk)free from error
Vietnamese đúng, sửa
- đúngfree from error
- sửato make something become right that was previously wrong
- chữato make something become right that was previously wrong
- sửa chữato make something become right that was previously wrong
Welsh cywir, cywiro
- cywirfree from error
- cywiroto make something become right that was previously wrong
Yiddish ריכטיק
- ריכטיק (rikhtik)free from error
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with correct
Cite this entry
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