Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /kəˈɹɛkt/
- Hyphenation: cor‧rect
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Etymology 1
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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 com- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
Adjective
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correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
- Free from error; true; accurate; astute.
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.
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free from error
- Ainu: ピㇼカ (pirka)
- American Sign Language: 1@RadialHand-FingerForwardAcross-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerForwardAcross
- Arabic: صَحِيح (ar) (ṣaḥīḥ), صَوَاب (ṣawāb)
- Egyptian Arabic: صَح (ṣaḥ)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܬܪܨ (traṣ)
- Armenian: ճիշտ (hy) (čišt)
- Assamese: শুধ (xudho), শুদ্ধ (xuddho)
- Asturian: correutu
- Azerbaijani: doğru (az)
- Bashkir: дөрөҫ (döröś)
- Belarusian: праві́льны (pravílʹny)
- Breton: reizh (br)
- Bulgarian: ве́рен (bg) (véren), пра́вилен (bg) (právilen)
- Burmese: မှန် (my) (hman)
- Catalan: correcte (ca), condret (ca)
- Chamicuro: nanatolo
- Cherokee: ᏚᏳᎪᏛᎢ (duyugodvi)
- Chinese:
- Eastern Min: 正確/正确 (ciáng-káuk)
- Mandarin: 正確/正确 (zh) (zhèngquè), 對/对 (zh) (duì)
- Czech: správný (cs)
- Danish: korrekt (da), rigtig (da)
- Dutch: correct (nl), juist (nl)
- Erzya: виде (viďe)
- Esperanto: ĝusta, prava (eo)
- Estonian: õige (et)
- Faroese: rættur (fo)
- Finnish: oikea (fi), oikeellinen (fi)
- French: correct (fr)
- Galician: correcto (gl)
- Georgian: სწორი (sc̣ori), უშეცდომო (ušecdomo), ზუსტი (zusṭi)
- German: korrekt (de), richtig (de), einwandfrei (de)
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃 (sunjis), 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 (raihts)
- Greek: σωστός (el) (sostós)
- Ancient: ὀρθός (orthós)
- Hawaiian: pololei
- Hebrew: נָכוֹן (he) (nakhon), נְכוֹנָה f (nekhona)
- Hindi: सही (hi) (sahī), ठीक (hi) (ṭhīk)
- Hungarian: hibátlan (hu), helyes (hu)
- Icelandic: rétt
- Indonesian: tepat (id)
- Ingrian: vernoi
- Isan: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: corretto (it), esatto (it)
- Japanese: 正しい (ja) (ただしい, tadashii), 正解 (ja) (せいかい, seikai)
- Kazakh: дұрыс (dūrys)
- Khmer: ត្រឹមត្រូវ (trəm trəv)
- Korean: 옳다 (ko) (olta), 맞다 (ko) (matda), 바르다 (ko) (bareuda), 정확하다 (ko) (jeonghwakhada)
- Kyrgyz: туура (ky) (tuura), түз (ky) (tüz), дурус (ky) (durus)
- Lao: ແກ້ (lo) (kǣ), ຖືກ (thư̄k)
- Latin: correctus
- Latvian: pareizs
- Lithuanian: teisingas
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: правилен (pravilen), верен (veren)
- Malay: benar, betul (ms)
- Maori: tika (mi)
- Miyako: マツム (matumu)
- Moksha: виде (viďe)
- Norwegian: riktig (no)
- Occitan: corrècte (oc), condrech (oc)
- Old English: riht
- Pashto: ټيک (ps)
- Persian: درست (fa) (dorost)
- Plautdietsch: rajcht
- Polish: prawidłowy (pl), właściwy (pl), poprawny (pl)
- Portuguese: correto (pt), certo (pt)
- Quechua: chanin
- Rapa Nui: titika
- Romanian: corect (ro)
- Russian: пра́вильный (ru) (právilʹnyj), ве́рный (ru) (vérnyj), корре́ктный (ru) (korréktnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: исправан
- Roman: ispravan (sh)
- Shan: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: správny
- Slovene: pravilen
- Spanish: correcto (es)
- Sundanese: leres
- Swedish: korrekt (sv), riktig (sv), rätt (sv), felfri (sv)
- Tagalog: tama
- Tajik: дуруст (tg) (durust)
- Tetum: loos
- Thai: ถูก (th) (tùuk)
- Turkish: doğru (tr)
- Turkmen: dogry, dürs
- Ukrainian: пра́вильний (uk) (právylʹnyj), коре́ктний (koréktnyj)
- Urdu: صحیح (sahīh), ٹھیک (ur) (ṭhīk)
- Uzbek: toʻgʻri (uz)
- Vietnamese: đúng (vi)
- Volapük: verätik (vo)
- Welsh: cywir (cy)
- Yiddish: ריכטיק (rikhtik)
- Zealandic: juust, sjuust, goed
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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with good manners
- Armenian: կոռեկտ (hy) (koṙekt)
- Bulgarian: възпи́тан (vǎzpítan), коре́ктен (bg) (korékten)
- Czech: slušný (cs), korektní
- Dutch: correct (nl), welgemanierd (nl), welopgevoed (nl), goedgemanierd
- Finnish: korrekti (fi), asiallinen (fi)
- Galician: correcto (gl)
- German: einwandfrei (de), ordnungsgemäß (de), zutreffend (de)
- Greek: σωστός (el) (sostós)
- Hungarian: illő (hu), korrekt (hu)
- Italian: corretto (it), ineccepibile (it)
- Maori: tika (mi)
- Portuguese: comportado (pt), educado (pt)
- Romanian: corect (ro)
- Russian: воспи́танный (ru) (vospítannyj), корре́ктный (ru) (korréktnyj)
- Swedish: korrekt (sv)
- Tagalog: wasto
- Ukrainian: ви́хований (výxovanyj), ґре́чний (uk) (gréčnyj), коре́ктний (koréktnyj)
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Interjection
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correct
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Synonym: OK
correct (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
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From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
correct (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.
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to make something become right that was previously wrong
- Arabic: صَحَّحَ (ṣaḥḥaḥa)
- Armenian: ուղղել (hy) (uġġel)
- Azerbaijani: düzəltmək (az), islah etmək
- Basque: zuzendu
- Bulgarian: поправям (bg) (popravjam), кориги́рам (bg) (korigíram)
- Catalan: corregir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 修正 (zh) (xiūzhèng), 改正 (zh) (gǎizhèng), 糾正/纠正 (zh) (jiūzhèng)
- Czech: opravit (cs)
- Dutch: corrigeren (nl), verbeteren (nl)
- Esperanto: korekti
- Faroese: rætta
- Finnish: korjata (fi), oikaista (fi)
- French: corriger (fr)
- Galician: correxir
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: ausbessern (de), korrigieren (de), richtigstellen (de), berichtigen (de), nachregeln Tech.
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (garaihtjan)
- Greek: διορθώνω (el) (diorthóno)
- Hebrew: תיקן (he) (tikén)
- Hindi: सही करना (sahī karnā)
- Hungarian: kijavít (hu), helyesbít (hu), korrigál (hu)
- Icelandic: leiðrétta (is)
- Irish: beachtaigh, ceartaigh
- Italian: correggere (it), emendare (it), rettificare (it)
- Japanese: 正す (ja) (tadasu), 直す (ja) (naosu), 修正する (ja) (shūsei-suru), 是正する (ja) (zesei-suru), 訂正する (ja) (teisei-suru)
- Khmer: កែ (km) (kae)
- Korean: 교정하다 (ko) (gyojeonghada)
- Ladino: korijar
- Latin: corrigō, ēmendō (la)
- Malay: benarkan, betulkan
- Maori: tītere (someone's speech), whakatika
- Mongolian: засах (mn) (zasax)
- Old English: ġerihtan
- Oromo: sirreessuu
- Ottoman Turkish: طوغریلامق (doğrulamak)
- Polish: poprawiać (pl) impf, poprawić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: corrigir (pt)
- Quechua: allichiy
- Romanian: corecta (ro)
- Russian: исправля́ть (ru) impf (ispravljátʹ), испра́вить (ru) pf (isprávitʹ), корректи́ровать (ru) (korrektírovatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: cuir ceart, (e.g. teacher) comharraich
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: поправити
- Roman: popraviti (sh)
- Slovak: opraviť
- Slovene: popraviti
- Spanish: corregir (es)
- Swedish: rätta (sv), korrigera (sv)
- Thai: แก้ไข (th) (gɛ̂ɛ-kǎi)
- Tibetan: ནོར་བཅོས་བྱེད (nor bcos byed), དག་བཅོས་བྱེད (dag bcos byed)
- Turkish: düzeltmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: виправля́ти (vypravljáty), ви́правити pf (výpravyty), коригува́ти impf (koryhuváty), скоригува́ти pf (skoryhuváty)
- Vietnamese: sửa (vi), chữa (vi), sửa chữa (vi)
- Walloon: coridjî (wa), ricoridjî (wa)
- Welsh: cywiro (cy)
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Further reading
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- “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.
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin correctus.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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correct (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.
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