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correct
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k????kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: cor?rect
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 com- (“together”) + regere (“to make straight, rule”).
Adjective
correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
- Free from error; true; accurate.
- With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
Synonyms
- (free from error): right
- (with good manners): well-mannered, well behaved
Antonyms
- (without error): incorrect, inaccurate
- (with good manners): uncouth
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
correct
- (India) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Synonym: OK
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.
- 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.
- 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:
- (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
- (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
- (transitive) To discipline; to punish.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- 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
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French correct, from Latin corr?ctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??r?kt/
- Hyphenation: cor?rect
- Rhymes: -?kt
Adjective
correct (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)
- correct
Inflection
Synonyms
- juist
Derived terms
- correctheid
- incorrect
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin correctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.??kt/
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /k?.??k/
Adjective
correct (feminine singular correcte, masculine plural corrects, feminine plural correctes)
- correct, right
- (colloquial) passable, okay
- (Quebec, colloquial) OK, fine, alright
Derived terms
- politiquement correct
Related terms
- correctement
- correctif
- correction
- corriger
- incorrect
- incorrectement
Further reading
- “correct” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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lawful
English
Alternative forms
- lawfull (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law +? -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??f?l/
- Rhymes: -??f?l
Adjective
lawful (comparative more lawful, superlative most lawful)
- (law) Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.
- Lawful money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.
- Synonyms: just, legal, legitimate, licit
- Antonyms: nonlawful, unlawful
- Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.
Related terms
- lawfully
- lawfulness
Translations
Noun
lawful (plural lawfuls)
- (role-playing games) A character having a lawful alignment.
Anagrams
- awfull
Middle English
Adjective
lawful
- Alternative form of laweful
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