# correct
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kəˈɹɛkt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: cor‧rect
* Rhymes: -ɛkt

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).

#### Adjective

correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
* Free from error; true; accurate.
    Synonym: right
    Antonyms: incorrect, inaccurate, wrong
    Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10
    We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.
* With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
    Synonyms: well-mannered, well-behaved
    Antonym: uncouth

##### Derived terms

* all correct
* anatomically correct
* autocorrect
* come correct
* conservatively correct
* const-correct
* correctamundo
* correctify
* correctitude
* correctly
* correctness
* corright
* hypercorrect
* hypocorrect
* incorrect
* k'rect card
* noncorrect
* patriotically correct
* politically correct
* pseudocorrect
* recorrect
* uncorrect

##### Translations

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#### Adverb

correct
* Correctly.
    Hope I spelt your name correct.

#### Interjection

correct
* Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
    Synonym: OK

#### Noun

correct (plural corrects)
* A correct response.
** 2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching:Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the […] If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or […]

### Etymology 2

From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.

#### Verb

correct (third-person singular simple present corrects, present participle correcting, simple past and past participle corrected)
* (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
    You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.
    The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
** 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
* (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
    The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
* (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
    It's rude to correct your parents.
* (transitive) To discipline; to punish.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:repair

##### Derived terms

* correctability
* correctable
* correctedness
* correcting fluid
* correctingly
* correction
* correct me if I'm wrong
* corrector
* correctory
* correctrix
* course-correct
* error correct
* geocorrect
* hypocorrect
* incorrected
* miscorrect
* noncorrected
* noncorrecting
* overcorrect
* politically correct
* precorrect
* self-correct
* self-correcting
* uncorrectable
* uncorrected
* undercorrect

##### Translations
### Further reading

* “correct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “correct”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “correct”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French correct, from Latin corrēctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔˈrɛkt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cor‧rect
* Rhymes: -ɛkt

### Adjective

correct (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)
* correct

#### Synonyms

* juist

#### Derived terms

* correctheid
* incorrect

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: korèk
* → Papiamentu: korèkt

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin correctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.ʁɛkt/, /ko.ʁɛkt/
* (Quebec, informal) IPA: /kɔ.ʁɛk/

### Adjective

correct (feminine correcte, masculine plural corrects, feminine plural correctes)
* correct, right
    Votre réponse est correcte. ― Your answer is correct.
* (colloquial) passable, okay
    Le restaurant auquel nous sommes allés était correct, sans plus. ― The restaurant we went to was okay, but nothing more.
* (Quebec, colloquial) OK, fine, alright
    J’suis tellement désolé! T’es correct? ― I'm so sorry! You OK?
    Ouais, c’est correct. ― Yeah, it's fine.

#### Derived terms

* correctement
* politiquement correct

#### Related terms

* correctif
* correction
* corriger
* incorrect
* incorrectement

### Further reading

* “correct”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.