correct

Meanings

Adjective

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

Interjection

• Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

Verb

• To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
• To grade (examination papers).
• To inform (someone) of their error.
• To discipline; to punish.

Related

Similar words

• right
• well-mannered, well behaved

Opposite words

• incorrect, inaccurate
• uncouth

Origin

• Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus ("improved, amended, correct"), past participle of corrigere, conrigere, from com- + combining form of rego.
• From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.