correct
/kə'rekt/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Free from error; accurate; true: Conforming to fact, truth, or a standard.
- Conforming to an accepted standard; proper: Meeting standards of behavior, procedure, or appropriateness.
Verb:
- To make right; remove errors from: To amend or rectify something that is wrong or inaccurate.
- To adjust or regulate to a standard: To bring into accordance with a required condition or rule.
- To point out or mark errors; to rebuke or punish: To indicate faults for amendment or to discipline for a fault.
- To counteract or neutralize: To remove or offset the undesirable effects of something.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- Please ensure you have the correct answer before submitting the test.
- It is correct to address the judge as "Your Honor."
- Her pronunciation of the word was perfectly correct.
Verb:
- The teacher will correct the exams by Friday.
- He corrected his watch to the official time signal.
- Parents must correct their children's bad behavior.
- These glasses correct for astigmatism.
Advanced Usage
"To stand corrected": To admit that one was wrong after being shown evidence.
- I said it was Tuesday, but I stand corrected; it is actually Wednesday.
"Politically correct": Conforming to a belief that language and practices should avoid offending or disadvantaging particular groups.
- Using gender-neutral terms is considered politically correct.
Variants and Related Words
Correction (n): The action or process of correcting something.
- The document is undergoing final correction.
Corrective (adj/n): Designed to correct or having the power to correct; a thing that corrects.
- The government took corrective measures.
Correctly (adv): In a correct manner.
- She answered the question correctly.
Correctness (n): The quality or state of being correct.
- The correctness of his statement was later verified.
Synonyms
- Accurate (adj): Free from error.
- Right (adj): In accordance with what is good, proper, or just.
- Rectify (v): To put right; correct.
- Amend (v): To make minor improvements or corrections.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Correct for: To adjust or compensate for a known error or factor.
- The software corrects for lens distortion in the photos.
Related Idioms
To correct someone's manners: To teach someone to behave properly.
- It's not your place to correct your boss's manners.
Beyond correction: Impossible to correct or reform.
- His bad habits are now beyond correction.
Adjective
- correct in opinion or judgment
- time proved him right
- in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
- what's the right word for this?
- the right way to open oysters
- socially right or correct
- it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye
- correct behavior
- free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
- the correct answer
- the correct version
- the right answer
- took the right road
- the right decision
Verb
- treat a defect
- The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- Adjust the clock, please
- correct the alignment of the front wheels
- go down in value
- the stock market corrected
- prices slumped
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently
- adjust for
- engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
- censure severely
- She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
- make reparations or amends for
- right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
- make right or correct
- Correct the mistakes
- rectify the calculation