correct
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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”) + regere (“to make straight, rule”).
AdjectiveEdit
correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
- Free from error; true; accurate.
- With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
SynonymsEdit
- (free from error): right
- (with good manners): well-mannered, well behaved
AntonymsEdit
- (without error): incorrect, inaccurate
- (with good manners): uncouth
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from correct (adjective)
TranslationsEdit
free from error
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with good manners
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
VerbEdit
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.
- 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.
- 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:
- (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
- (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
- It's rude to correct your parents.
- (transitive) To discipline; to punish.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from correct (verb)
TranslationsEdit
To make something wrong become right
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to inform someone of their error
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Further readingEdit
- correct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- correct in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- correct at OneLook Dictionary Search
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PronunciationEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
correct (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of correct | ||||
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| 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 | — | |
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin correctus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
correct (feminine singular 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
- Chuis tellement désolé ! T'es correct ? ― I'm so sorry! You OK?
- Ouais, c'est correct. ― Yeah, it's fine.
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “correct” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).