correct

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /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 com- (“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

(Terms derived from correct (adjective)):

Translations

free from error

Ainu: ピㇼカ (pirka)
American Sign Language: 1@RadialHand-FingerForwardAcross-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerForwardAcross
Arabic: صَحِيح (ar) (ṣaḥīḥ), صَوَاب (ṣawāb)
Egyptian Arabic: صَح (ṣaḥ)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܬܪܨ (traṣ)
Armenian: ճիշտ (hy) (čišt)
Assamese: শুধ (xudho), শুদ্ধ (xuddho)
Asturian: correutu
Azerbaijani: doğru (az)
Bashkir: дөрөҫ (döröś)
Belarusian: праві́льны (pravílʹny)
Breton: reizh (br)
Bulgarian: ве́рен (bg) (véren), пра́вилен (bg) (právilen)
Burmese: မှန် (my) (hman)
Catalan: correcte (ca), condret (ca)
Chamicuro: nanatolo
Cherokee: ᏚᏳᎪᏛᎢ (duyugodvi)
Chinese:
Eastern Min: 正確 / 正确 (ciáng-káuk)

Mandarin: 正確 / 正确 (zh) (zhèngquè), 對 / 对 (zh) (duì)
Czech: správný (cs)
Danish: korrekt (da), rigtig (da)
Dutch: correct (nl), juist (nl)
Erzya: виде (vide)
Esperanto: ĝusta, prava (eo)
Estonian: õige (et)
Faroese: rættur (fo)
Finnish: oikea (fi), oikeellinen (fi)
French: correct (fr)
Galician: correcto (gl)
Georgian: სწორი (sc̣ori), უშეცდომო (ušecdomo), ზუსტი (zusṭi)
German: korrekt (de), richtig (de), einwandfrei (de)
Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃 (sunjis), 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 (raihts)
Greek: σωστός (el) (sostós)
Ancient: ὀρθός (orthós)
Hawaiian: pololei
Hebrew: נָכוֹן (he) (nakhon), נְכוֹנָה f (nekhona)
Hindi: सही (hi) (sahī), ठीक (hi) (ṭhīk)
Hungarian: hibátlan (hu), helyes (hu)
Icelandic: rétt
Indonesian: tepat (id)
Ingrian: vernoi
Irish: beacht
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: corretto (it), esatto (it)
Japanese: 正しい (ja) (ただしい, tadashii), 正解 (ja) (せいかい, seikai)
Kazakh: дұрыс (dūrys)
Khmer: ត្រឹមត្រូវ (trəm trəv)
Korean: 옳다 (ko) (olta), 맞다 (ko) (matda), 바르다 (ko) (bareuda), 정확하다 (ko) (jeonghwakhada)
Kyrgyz: туура (ky) (tuura), түз (ky) (tüz), дурус (ky) (durus)
Lao: ແກ້ (lo) (kǣ), ຖືກ (thư̄k)
Latin: correctus
Latvian: pareizs
Lithuanian: teisingas
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: правилен (pravilen), верен (veren)
Malay: benar, betul (ms)
Maori: tika (mi)
Miyako: マツム (matumu)
Moksha: виде (vide)
Norwegian: riktig (no)
Occitan: corrècte (oc), condrech (oc)
Old English: riht
Ottoman Turkish: طوغری (doğrı), راست (râst)
Pashto: ټيک (ps)
Persian: درست (fa) (dorost)
Plautdietsch: rajcht
Polish: prawidłowy (pl), właściwy (pl), poprawny (pl)
Portuguese: correto (pt), certo (pt)
Quechua: chanin
Rapa Nui: titika
Romanian: corect (ro)
Russian: пра́вильный (ru) (právilʹnyj), ве́рный (ru) (vérnyj), корре́ктный (ru) (korréktnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: исправан

Roman: ispravan (sh)
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: správny
Slovene: pravilen
Spanish: correcto (es)
Sundanese: leres
Swedish: korrekt (sv), riktig (sv), rätt (sv), felfri (sv)
Tagalog: tama
Tajik: дуруст (tg) (durust)
Tetum: loos
Thai: ถูก (th) (tùuk)
Turkish: doğru (tr)
Turkmen: dogry, dürs
Ukrainian: пра́вильний (uk) (právylʹnyj), коре́ктний (koréktnyj)
Urdu: صحیح (sahīh), ٹھیک (ur) (ṭhīk)
Uzbek: toʻgʻri (uz)
Vietnamese: đúng (vi)
Volapük: verätik (vo)
Welsh: cywir (cy)
Yiddish: ריכטיק (rikhtik)
Zealandic: juust, sjuust, goed
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

with good manners

Armenian: կոռեկտ (hy) (koṙekt)
Bulgarian: възпи́тан (vǎzpítan), коре́ктен (bg) (korékten)
Czech: slušný (cs), korektní
Dutch: correct (nl), welgemanierd (nl), welopgevoed (nl), goedgemanierd
Finnish: korrekti (fi), asiallinen (fi)
Galician: correcto (gl)
German: einwandfrei (de), ordnungsgemäß (de), zutreffend (de)
Greek: σωστός (el) (sostós)
Hungarian: illő (hu), korrekt (hu)
Italian: corretto (it), ineccepibile (it)
Maori: tika (mi)
Portuguese: comportado (pt), educado (pt)
Romanian: corect (ro)
Russian: воспи́танный (ru) (vospítannyj), корре́ктный (ru) (korréktnyj)
Swedish: korrekt (sv)
Tagalog: wasto
Ukrainian: ви́хований (výxovanyj), ґре́чний (uk) (gréčnyj), коре́ктний (koréktnyj)

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Translations to be checked

Ido: ^{(please verify)} korekta (io)
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} správny
Slovene: ^{(please verify)} pravilni

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

(Terms derived from correct (verb)):

Translations

to make something become right that was previously wrong

Arabic: صَحَّحَ (ṣaḥḥaḥa)
Armenian: ուղղել (hy) (uġġel)
Azerbaijani: düzəltmək (az), islah etmək
Basque: zuzendu
Bulgarian: поправям (bg) (popravjam), кориги́рам (bg) (korigíram)
Catalan: corregir (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 修正 (zh) (xiūzhèng), 改正 (zh) (gǎizhèng), 糾正 / 纠正 (zh) (jiūzhèng)
Czech: opravit (cs)
Dutch: corrigeren (nl), verbeteren (nl)
Esperanto: korekti
Faroese: rætta
Finnish: korjata (fi), oikaista (fi)
French: corriger (fr)
Galician: correxir
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: ausbessern (de), korrigieren (de), richtigstellen (de), berichtigen (de), nachregeln Tech.
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (garaihtjan)
Greek: διορθώνω (el) (diorthóno)
Hebrew: תיקן (he) (tikén)
Hindi: सही करना (sahī karnā)
Hungarian: kijavít (hu), helyesbít (hu), korrigál (hu)
Icelandic: leiðrétta (is)
Irish: beachtaigh, ceartaigh
Italian: correggere (it), emendare (it), rettificare (it)
Japanese: 正す (ja) (tadasu), 直す (ja) (naosu), 修正する (ja) (shūsei-suru), 是正する (ja) (zesei-suru), 訂正する (ja) (teisei-suru)
Khmer: កែ (km) (kae)
Korean: 교정하다 (ko) (gyojeonghada)
Ladino: korijar
Latin: corrigō, ēmendō (la)
Malay: benarkan, betulkan
Maori: tītere (someone's speech), whakatika
Mongolian: засах (mn) (zasax)
Old English: ġerihtan
Oromo: sirreessuu
Ottoman Turkish: طوغریلامق (doğrulamak)
Polish: poprawiać (pl) impf, poprawić (pl) pf
Portuguese: corrigir (pt)
Quechua: allichiy
Romanian: corecta (ro)
Russian: исправля́ть (ru) impf (ispravljátʹ), испра́вить (ru) pf (isprávitʹ), корректи́ровать (ru) (korrektírovatʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: cuir ceart, (e.g. teacher) comharraich
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: поправити

Roman: popraviti (sh)
Slovak: opraviť
Slovene: popraviti
Spanish: corregir (es)
Swedish: rätta (sv), korrigera (sv)
Thai: แก้ไข (th) (gɛ̂ɛ-kǎi)
Tibetan: ནོར་བཅོས་བྱེད (nor bcos byed), དག་བཅོས་བྱེད (dag bcos byed)
Turkish: düzeltmek (tr)
Ukrainian: виправля́ти (vypravljáty), ви́правити pf (výpravyty), коригува́ти impf (koryhuváty), скоригува́ти pf (skoryhuváty)
Vietnamese: sửa (vi), chữa (vi), sửa chữa (vi)
Walloon: coridjî (wa), ricoridjî (wa)
Welsh: cywiro (cy)

to inform someone of their error

Italian: correggere (it), precisare (it), puntualizzare (it)
Maori: tītere
Old English: þrafian
Ottoman Turkish: طوغریلامق (doğrulamak)
Tibetan: སྐྱོན་སེལ་ཞུ (skyon sel zhu)

Declension of correct
uninflected	correct
inflected	correcte
comparative	correcter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		correct	correcter	het correctst het correctste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	correcte	correctere	correctste
	n. sing.	correct	correcter	correctste
	plural	correcte	correctere	correctste
definite		correcte	correctere	correctste
partitive		corrects	correcters	—

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