correct

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɛkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkt
• Hyphenation: cor‧rect

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 com- (“together”) + regere (“to make straight, rule”).

correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)

1. Free from error; true; accurate.
2. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

• (free from error): right
• (with good manners): well-mannered, well behaved

• (without error): incorrect, inaccurate
• (with good manners): uncouth

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

correct (third-person singular simple present corrects, present participle correcting, simple past and past participle corrected)

1. (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
   • 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.

   The navigator corrected the course of the ship.

2. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
3. (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.

   It's rude to correct your parents.

4. (transitive) To discipline; to punish.

• See also Thesaurus:repair

• correct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• correct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• correct at OneLook Dictionary Search

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correct (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)

1. correct

• juist

• correctheid

Borrowed from Latin correctus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁɛkt/
• (Québec, informal) IPA^(key): /kɔʁɛk/

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correct (feminine singular correcte, masculine plural corrects, feminine plural correctes)

1. correct, right

   Votre réponse est correcte. ― Your answer is correct.

2. (colloquial) passable, okay

   Le restaurant auquel nous sommes allés était correct, sans plus.

   The restaurant we went to was okay, but nothing more.

3. (Quebec, colloquial) OK, fine, alright

   Chuis tellement désolé ! T'es correct ? ― I'm so sorry! You OK?

   Ouais, c'est correct. ― Yeah, it's fine.

• correctif
• correction
• corriger

• “correct” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).