Definition:
- (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.
Compare correct with other words:
correct vs. reasonable
correct vs. rebuke
correct vs. naive
correct vs. porrect
correct vs. mitigate
correct vs. enhance
correct vs. veritable
correct vs. restate
change vs. correct
actual vs. correct
correct vs. emendately
correct vs. correctitude
correct vs. orthodoxly
correct vs. corrigible
correct vs. miscorrect
correct vs. flawless
consistent vs. correct
correct vs. redress
correct vs. fix
correct vs. justify
alter vs. correct
correct vs. exciting
balcony vs. correct
correct vs. kidney
adjust vs. correct
correct vs. wrong
canis vs. correct
correct vs. revise
correct vs. gather
calibrate vs. correct
affirmative vs. correct
acceptable vs. correct
correct vs. safe
correct vs. satisfactory
alright vs. correct
correct vs. righten
correct vs. corrector
correct vs. reformative
correct vs. rightness
correct vs. redub
correct vs. purism
correct vs. paradiorthosis
correct vs. remediate
correct vs. emend
attested vs. correct
accuracy vs. correct
correct vs. gang
correct vs. repair
adequate vs. correct
correct vs. reprimand
correct vs. perverted
correct vs. rework
correct vs. rectify
correct vs. temperament
correct vs. supplement
correct vs. grammatical
correct vs. monocle
correct vs. warp
correct vs. remedy
correct vs. remedial
correct vs. nitpick
correct vs. reform
amend vs. correct
correct vs. orthometric
correct vs. orthography
correct vs. review
correct vs. prevarication
attest vs. correct
castigate vs. correct
correct vs. unfit
correct vs. exact
correct vs. valid
compensate vs. correct
correct vs. rectitude
correct vs. pontificate
appropriate vs. correct
correct vs. just
correct vs. proper
correct vs. corrupt
correct vs. corrigendum
correct vs. incorrigible
correct vs. scrub
correct vs. uncorrectable
correct vs. correction
correct vs. correctable
correct vs. inform
correct vs. examination
correct vs. grade
correct vs. correctly
correct vs. uncouth
correct vs. inaccurate
correct vs. incorrect
correct vs. truth
correct vs. true
correct vs. ring
correct vs. spelling
correct vs. hung
correct vs. precise
correct vs. right
accurate vs. correct
correct vs. yes