correct
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from com- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
Adjective
editcorrect (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
- Free from error; true; accurate.
- Synonym: right
- Antonyms: incorrect, inaccurate, wrong
- Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10
- We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.
- With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
- Synonyms: well-mannered, well-behaved
- Antonym: uncouth
Derived terms
editTerms derived from correct (adjective)
Translations
editfree from error
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with good manners
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Interjection
editcorrect
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Synonym: OK
Noun
editcorrect (plural corrects)
- A correct response.
- 2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching:
- 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 […]
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
Verb
editcorrect (third-person singular simple present corrects, present participle correcting, simple past and past participle corrected)
- (transitive) 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.
- 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, 27:
- 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.
- (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
- The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
- (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
- It's rude to correct your parents.
- (transitive) To discipline; to punish.
Synonyms
edit- See also Thesaurus:repair
Derived terms
editTerms derived from correct (verb)
- 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
- uncorrected
- undercorrect
Translations
editto make something become right that was previously wrong
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to inform someone of their error
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Further reading
edit- “correct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “correct”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “correct”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French correct, from Latin corrēctus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcorrect (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)
Declension
edit| Declension of correct | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | correct | |||
| inflected | correcte | |||
| comparative | correcter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | correct | correcter | het correctst het correctste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | correcte | correctere | correctste |
| n. sing. | correct | correcter | correctste | |
| plural | correcte | correctere | correctste | |
| definite | correcte | correctere | correctste | |
| partitive | corrects | correcters | — | |
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin correctus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcorrect (feminine correcte, masculine plural corrects, feminine plural correctes)
- correct, right
- Votre réponse est correcte. ― Your answer is correct.
- (colloquial) passable, okay
- Le restaurant auquel nous sommes allés était correct, sans plus. ― The restaurant we went to was okay, but nothing more.
- (Quebec, colloquial) OK, fine, alright
- J’suis tellement désolé! T’es correct? ― I'm so sorry! You OK?
- Ouais, c’est correct. ― Yeah, it's fine.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “correct”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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