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Defenition of the word correct

    • Defenition of the word correct

      • Without diversion from the desired or agreed specification; neither exceeding nor failling short in any way.
      • That are in accordance with fact.
      • To remove errors.
      • To adapt something; to alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.
      • censure severely; "She chastized him for his insensitive remarks"
      • 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"
      • socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"
      • in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"
      • make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"
      • punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
      • make reparations or amends for; "right a wrong"
      • correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
      • treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
      • make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
      • alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
      • censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
      • go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
      • make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
      • adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
      • socially right or correct; "it isn''t right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"
      • in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what''s the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"
      • treat a defect
      • make right or correct
      • alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
      • censure severely
      • go down in value
      • make reparations or amends for
      • punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
      • adjust for
      • free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
      • correct in opinion or judgment
      • socially right or correct
      • in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure

    Synonyms for the word correct

      • acceptable
      • accepted
      • accurate
      • adjust
      • amend
      • approved
      • as it should be
      • assess
      • castigate
      • chasten
      • chastise
      • chastize
      • compensate
      • discipline
      • exact
      • fix
      • mark
      • objurgate
      • proper
      • pull up
      • put right
      • rectify
      • redress
      • remedy
      • right
      • sort out
      • truthful
      • tweak

    Similar words in the correct

      • accurate
      • compensate
      • correct
      • correctable
      • corrected
      • correcter
      • correctest
      • correcting
      • correction
      • correction's
      • correctional
      • corrective
      • correctives
      • correctly
      • correctness
      • correctness's
      • corrector
      • corrector's
      • corrects
      • counterbalance
      • even off
      • even out
      • even up
      • exact
      • letter-perfect
      • precise
      • proper
      • right-minded
      • straight
      • true
      • word-perfect

    Hyponyms for the word correct

      • aby
      • abye
      • align
      • amend
      • atone
      • attune
      • calibrate
      • carry
      • citify
      • compensate
      • coordinate
      • cover
      • debug
      • decompress
      • depressurise
      • depressurize
      • expiate
      • fine-tune
      • fit
      • flame
      • focalise
      • focalize
      • focus
      • graduate
      • harmonise
      • harmonize
      • justify
      • linearise
      • linearize
      • match
      • modulate
      • ordinate
      • over-correct
      • overcompensate
      • plumb
      • pressurise
      • pressurize
      • proportion
      • readjust
      • reconcile
      • rectify
      • regulate
      • remediate
      • remedy
      • repair
      • reset
      • set
      • sharpen
      • sync
      • synchronise
      • synchronize
      • temper
      • time
      • trim
      • tune
      • tune up
      • zero
      • zero in

    Hypernyms for the word correct

      • alter
      • balance
      • bawl out
      • berate
      • call down
      • call on the carpet
      • care for
      • change
      • change by reversal
      • check
      • chew out
      • chew up
      • chide
      • come down
      • descend
      • dress down
      • equilibrate
      • equilibrise
      • equilibrize
      • fall
      • go down
      • have words
      • jaw
      • lambast
      • lambaste
      • lecture
      • modify
      • penalise
      • penalize
      • punish
      • rag
      • rebuke
      • remonstrate
      • reprimand
      • reproof
      • reverse
      • scold
      • take to task
      • treat
      • trounce
      • turn

    Antonyms for the word correct

      • false
      • falsify
      • incorrect
      • wrong

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