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

1. adjective. 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.
2. transitive verb. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
3. transitive 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).
4. transitive 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.
5. transitive 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.
6. verb. treat a defect

   "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"

7. verb. make right or correct

   "Correct the mistakes"

   "rectify the calculation"

   Synonyms: rectify, right

8. 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"

   Synonyms: adjust, set

9. verb. censure severely

   "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"

   Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate

10. verb. go down in value

    "the stock market corrected"

    "prices slumped"

    Synonyms: decline, slump

11. verb. make reparations or amends for

    "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

    Synonyms: compensate, redress, right

12. verb. punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience

    "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"

    Synonyms: discipline

13. verb. adjust for

    "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

    Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance

14. adjective. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth

    "the correct answer"

    "the correct version"

    Synonyms: right

15. adjective. correct in opinion or judgment

    "time proved him right"

    Synonyms: right

16. adjective. socially right or correct

    "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"

    "correct behavior"

    Synonyms: right

17. adjective. in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure

    "what's the right word for this?"

    "the right way to open oysters"

    Synonyms: right

Synonyms

rectify, right, adjust, set, castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate, decline, slump, compensate, redress, discipline, counterbalance

Common word forms

corrects, corrected, correcter, correctly, correctest, correcting, correctable, correctness

Words from these letters

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