correct

Free from error; true; accurate.

Adjective

  1. Free from error; true; accurate.
    • Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10
    • We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.

    Synonyms: faithful right

    Antonyms: incorrect inaccurate wrong bastard counterfactual erroneous fallacious false fictitious invented made up nonfactual nontrue nontruthful pseudo- spurious untrue untruthful unveracious unveridical

  2. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

    Synonyms: well-behaved well-mannered civil civilized complaisant correct courteous cultivated fair-mannered genteel mannerly polished polite politic reasonable refined urbane well-bred

    Antonyms: rude uncouth aweless improper bad-mannered barbaric bold bumptious crude churlish impudent discourteous gauche ill-bred ill-mannered impolite incivil insolent lack-grace mismannered rantipole rough uncivil uncivilized

Origin

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”).

Forms

more correct most correct

Derived

all correct anatomically correct autocorrect come correct conservatively correct const-correct correctamundo correctify correctitude correctly correctness corright hypercorrect hypocorrect incorrect k'rect card noncorrect patriotically correct politically correct pseudocorrect recorrect uncorrect

Adverb

  1. Correctly.
    • Hope I spelt your name correct.

Interjection

  1. Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

    Synonyms: OK

Noun

  1. 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...

Forms

corrects

Verb

  1. To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
    • You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.
    • The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
    • 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...

    Synonyms: amend rectify correct fix fix up furbish retrieve make whole mend patch put to rights recondition reform refurbish remediate remedy renew renovate restore restrive revamp right

  2. To grade (examination papers).
    • The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
  3. To inform (someone) of their error.
    • It's rude to correct your parents.
  4. To discipline; to punish.

    Synonyms: chasten gruel amerce castigate chastise come down on correct fix someone's wagon have someone's guts for garters have someone's head have someone's hide give it to someone give someone what for give what for malavogue nail someone to the wall penalize penance punish tan someone's hide tar out teach someone a lesson

Origin

From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.

Forms

corrects correcting corrected no-table-tags glossary correct correctest correctedst correcteth -

Derived

correctability correctable correctedness correcting fluid correctingly correction correct me if I'm wrong corrector correctory correctrix course-correct error correct geocorrect hypocorrect incorrected miscorrect noncorrected noncorrecting overcorrect politically correct precorrect self-correct self-correcting uncorrectable