When something is true, legitimate or right, you can say it's correct, using the word as an adjective. It can also be a verb; to correct wrong answers is to adjust them to make them right.
Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; nnot faulty or imperfect; free from error;
Verb
treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
Verb
make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
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"
Verb
censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
Verb
go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
Verb
make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
Verb
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
Verb
adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
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"
Adjective
correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
Adjective S.
socially right or correct; "it isn''t right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"
Adjective S.
in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what''s the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"
a.
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.
v. t.
To make right; to bring to the standard of truth,
justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or
principles.
v. t.
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).
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
Correct
Always use the most correct editions.
Correct
This is a defect in the first make of same men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.2.
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.4.
Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; nnot faulty or imperfect; free from error;
To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify;
Usage Examples
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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Other Usage ExamplesHumor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
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