correct
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
Definition of correct
9 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Free from error; true; accurate.
“Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10”
“We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.”
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adj
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Free from error; true; accurate.
“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.
adv
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Correctly.
“Hope I spelt your name correct.”
intj
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
noun
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A correct response.
“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 […]”
verb
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(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.”
“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.”
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(broadly, transitive)To grade (examination papers).
“The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.”
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(transitive)To inform (someone) of their error.
“It's rude to correct your parents.”
- (transitive)To discipline; to punish.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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”).
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