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correct
correct is a 7-letter English word with 17 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
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.
- 2transitive verb
To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
- 3transitive verb
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).
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6verb
treat a defect
"The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
- 7verb
make right or correct
"Correct the mistakes"
"rectify the calculation"
- 8verb
alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
"Adjust the clock, please"
"correct the alignment of the front wheels"
- 9verb
censure severely
"She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
- 10verb
go down in value
"the stock market corrected"
"prices slumped"
- 11verb
make reparations or amends for
"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
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- 12verb
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
"The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
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- 13verb
adjust for
"engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
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- 14adjective
free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
"the correct answer"
"the correct version"
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- 15adjective
correct in opinion or judgment
"time proved him right"
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- 16adjective
socially right or correct
"it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"
"correct behavior"
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- 17adjective
in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
"what's the right word for this?"
"the right way to open oysters"
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