'Correct' definitions:
Definition of 'correct'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: correct, right] [ant: incorrect, wrong]
adjective
Socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" [syn: correct, right]
adjective
In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters" [syn: correct, right]
adjective
verb
Make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" [syn: correct, rectify, right] [ant: falsify]
verb
Make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, redress, correct] [ant: wrong]
verb
Censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct]
verb
Adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" [syn: compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up]
verb
Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" [syn: discipline, correct, sort out]
verb
verb
Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels" [syn: adjust, set, correct]
verb
Treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
Definition of 'Correct'
From: GCIDE
- Correct \Cor*rect"\ (k[^o]r*r[e^]kt"), a. [L. correctus, p. p. of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to lead straight: cf. F. correct. See Regular, Right, and cf. Escort.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Always use the most correct editions. --Felton.
- Syn: Accurate; right, exact; precise; regular; faultless. See Accurate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Correct'
From: GCIDE
- Correct \Cor*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corrected; p. pr. & vb. n. Correcting.]
- 1. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. [1913 Webster]
- This is a defect in the first make of some men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked). [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. [1913 Webster]
- My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
- Syn: To amend; rectify; emend; reform; improve; chastise; punish; discipline; chasten. See Amend. [1913 Webster] Correctible
Synonyms of 'correct'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- accepted,
- accommodate,
- accommodate with,
- accord,
- according to Hoyle,
- accurate,
- acknowledged,
- adapt,
- adapt to,
- adjectival,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- admitted,
- admonish,
- adverbial,
- agree with,
- all right,
- ameliorate,
- amend,
- annul,
- appropriate,
- approved,
- apt,
- assimilate to,
- attentive,
- attributive,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- awaken,
- be guided by,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- being done,
- bend,
- berate,
- better,
- blame,
- blue-pencil,
- break the spell,
- bring to account,
- bring to book,
- burst the bubble,
- call to account,
- cancel,
- canonical,
- careful,
- castigate,
- censure,
- change,
- chasten,
- chastise,
- chide,
- chime in with,
- Christian,
- close,
- comely,
- comme il faut,
- compensate,
- comply,
- comply with,
- compose,
- condign,
- conform,
- conformable,
- conforming,
- conjunctive,
- conscientious,
- conventional,
- copulative,
- correspond,
- counteract,
- counterbalance,
- critical,
- cure,
- customary,
- de rigueur,
- dead right,
- deal with,
- debunk,
- decent,
- decorous,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- disabuse,
- disappoint,
- discipline,
- disenchant,
- disillude,
- disillusion,
- disillusionize,
- done,
- due,
- edit,
- emend,
- emendate,
- enlighten,
- established,
- evangelical,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- expose,
- exquisite,
- factual,
- faithful,
- fall in with,
- faultless,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- firm,
- fit,
- fitting,
- fix,
- flawless,
- follow,
- formal,
- functional,
- fussy,
- gear to,
- give satisfaction,
- glossematic,
- go by,
- good,
- good-mannered,
- grade,
- grammatic,
- happy,
- harmonize,
- have words with,
- impeccable,
- improve,
- in order,
- inflict upon,
- inspired,
- intransitive,
- just,
- just right,
- kosher,
- lecture,
- let down easy,
- let in on,
- letter-perfect,
- linking,
- literal,
- make all square,
- make conform,
- make good,
- make over,
- make right,
- make up for,
- mannerly,
- mark,
- masthead,
- meet,
- mend,
- meticulous,
- minute,
- modify,
- mold,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neutralize,
- nice,
- nominal,
- normal,
- normative,
- nullify,
- objurgate,
- observe,
- of the faith,
- offset,
- OK,
- okay,
- orthodox,
- orthodoxical,
- participial,
- particular,
- pay reparations,
- penalize,
- perfect,
- pillory,
- postpositional,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- prepositional,
- prick the bubble,
- pronominal,
- proper,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- punish,
- put right,
- put straight,
- put to rights,
- rate,
- rebuke,
- received,
- recense,
- recognized,
- recompense,
- reconcile,
- rectify,
- redact,
- redraft,
- redress,
- refined,
- reform,
- regulate,
- religious,
- remedy,
- remunerate,
- repair,
- reprehend,
- reprimand,
- reprove,
- requite,
- revamp,
- reverse,
- revise,
- rework,
- rewrite,
- right,
- right and proper,
- righteous,
- rightful,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rub off corners,
- scold,
- scriptural,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- seemly,
- set,
- set down,
- set right,
- set straight,
- set to rights,
- set up,
- settle,
- settle with,
- shape,
- show up,
- sound,
- spank,
- square accounts,
- standard,
- straight,
- straight-up-and-down,
- straighten,
- straighten out,
- strict,
- structural,
- substantive,
- subtle,
- suit,
- suitable,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- take down,
- take to task,
- tally with,
- tell the truth,
- textual,
- traditional,
- traditionalistic,
- transitive,
- true,
- true-blue,
- unblindfold,
- uncharm,
- undeceive,
- undistorted,
- unimpeachable,
- unspell,
- upbraid,
- usual,
- valid,
- veracious,
- verbal,
- veridical,
- vigorous,
- visit upon,
- wake up,
- well-behaved,
- well-chosen,
- well-expressed,
- well-mannered,
- well-put,
- well-spoken,
- work over,
- yield
Words containing 'Correct'
- Correctable,
- Corrected,
- Correctible,
- Correcting,
- Correction,
- Correctional,
- Corrective,
- Correctly,
- Correctness,
- Under correction,
- corrections,
- Correction line,
- House of correction,
- To stand corrected,
- correctional institution,
- correctional rehabilitation,
- department of corrections,
- over-correct,
- political correctness,
- politically correct,
- corrective disciplinary disciplinal,
- error correction code,
- error-correcting code