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”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
AdjectiveEdit
correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
- Free from error; true; accurate.
- 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.
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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InterjectionEdit
correct
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Synonym: OK
NounEdit
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 […]
- 2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching
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.
- You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.
- 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.
- (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.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from correct (verb)
TranslationsEdit
To make something become right that was previously wrong
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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, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- correct at OneLook Dictionary Search
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French correct, from Latin corrēctus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
correct (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)
InflectionEdit
| Inflection 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 | — | |
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DescendantsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin correctus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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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Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “correct”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.