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Definition of Correct
1. Adjective. Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth. "The right decision"
Attributes: Correctness, Rightness
Also: Accurate, Proper, True
Similar to: Accurate, Exact, Precise, Letter-perfect, Word-perfect, Straight
Derivative terms: Correctness, Rightness
Antonyms: Incorrect, Wrong
2. Verb. Make right or correct. "Rectify the calculation"
Generic synonyms: Change By Reversal, Reverse, Turn
Specialized synonyms: Amend, Rectify, Remediate, Remedy, Repair, Debug
Derivative terms: Correction, Rectification
Antonyms: Falsify
3. Adjective. Socially right or correct. "Correct behavior"
4. Verb. Make reparations or amends for. "Right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Over-correct, Overcompensate, Aby, Abye, Atone, Expiate
Also: Compensate
Derivative terms: Compensation, Compensation, Redress, Redress, Right, Right
Antonyms: Wrong
5. Adjective. In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure. "The right way to open oysters"
6. Verb. Censure severely. "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
Specialized synonyms: Flame
Generic synonyms: Bawl Out, Berate, Call Down, Call On The Carpet, Chew Out, Chew Up, Chide, Dress Down, Have Words, Jaw, Lambast, Lambaste, Lecture, Rag, Rebuke, Remonstrate, Reprimand, Reproof, Scold, Take To Task, Trounce
Derivative terms: Castigation, Castigation, Chastisement, Chastisement, Corrective, Objurgation
7. Adjective. Correct in opinion or judgment. "Time proved him right"
Similar to: Right-minded
Derivative terms: Correctness, Rightness
Antonyms: Wrong
8. Verb. Adjust for. "Engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
Specialized synonyms: Carry, Compensate, Cover, Overcompensate
Generic synonyms: Balance, Equilibrate, Equilibrise, Equilibrize
Derivative terms: Compensation, Corrective, Counterbalance, Counterbalance
9. Verb. Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience. "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
Generic synonyms: Penalise, Penalize, Punish
Derivative terms: Correction, Corrective, Corrigible, Discipline
10. Verb. Go down in value. "Prices slumped"
11. Verb. Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard. "Correct the alignment of the front wheels"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Proportion, Modulate, Temper, Tune, Tune Up, Calibrate, Fine-tune, Graduate, Tune, Tune Up, Time, Trim, Zero, Zero In, Zero, Readjust, Reset, Attune, Time, Set, Modulate, Regulate, Focalise, Focalize, Focus, Sharpen, Sync, Synchronise, Synchronize, Pressurise, Pressurize, Decompress, Depressurise, Depressurize, Fit, Match, Plumb, Align, Coordinate, Ordinate, Harmonise, Harmonize, Reconcile, Linearise, Linearize, Justify, Citify
Derivative terms: Adjustable, Adjuster, Adjustive, Adjustment, Corrective
12. Verb. Treat a defect. "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
Definition of Correct
1. a. Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
2. v. t. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
Definition of Correct
1. Adjective. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth. ¹
2. Adjective. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error. ¹
4. Verb. (by extension transitive) To grade (examination papers). ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Correct
1. free from error [adj -RECTER, -RECTEST] / to make free from error [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Correct
Literary usage of Correct
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1921)
"Of the nine hundred observations, thirty-five are correct. ... This gives a
percentage of 3.88% correct. Yerkes and Urban found the percentage to be 2.39%, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1836)
"Thou art malicious, envious, covetous, impatient, no doubt, and lascivious ; yet,
as thou art a Christian, correct and moderate thyself. ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"Is it then really most correct to give to these the name I quite think so, he said.
This being the case, I continued, can we contrive any ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"The numbers are in most cases too few to give a correct measure of the cooperativeness
in such a scheme of the different institutions, but, so far as they ..."
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