Correct is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CORRECT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make right
• put right (an error or fault)
• mark the errors in (a written or printed text)
• tell (someone) that they are mistaken
• counteract or rectify
• adjust (an instrument) to function accurately or accord with a standard
• adjust (a numerical result or reading) to allow for departure from standard conditions
• To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
• To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).
• To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
• To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
• make right or correct
• make reparations or amends for
• censure severely
• adjust for
• punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
• go down in value
• alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
• treat a defect
• put right
ADJECTIVE:
• free from error
• free from error; in accordance with fact or truth
• meeting the requirements of or most appropriate for a particular situation or activity
• (of a person or their appearance or behaviour) conforming to accepted social standards; proper
• conforming to a particular political or ideological orthodoxy
• free from error, true
• Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
• free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
• socially right or correct
• in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
• correct in opinion or judgment
• not mistaken in one's opinion or judgement; right
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make free from error

Words related to CORRECT

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How to use CORRECT in a sentence

• They perform the same function as the heroic accoutrements and architecture for a correct description of which Vergil visited ancient temples and studied Cato.
• The first success would be apt to inspire false opinions, which it might require a long course of subsequent experience to correct.
• The most correct intelligence I have received respecting him is by an express from Toronto.
• And it will be found, with respect to this as with respect to every correct definition, that the instances which seem to conflict with it are those which most confirm it.
• As soon as he had convinced himself of them by new data, the more quickly was he inclined to correct them in any way possible.
• Gifford are infinitely more ridiculous than those he pretends to correct.
• Menander reduced her to bounds, taught her, at once, gaiety and politeness, and enabled her to correct vice, without shocking the offenders.
• She chose to make known her real position, to correct the false impression at a time when all the nurses of the house should be together.
• It is not, however, too late to correct the error of your education.
• The definition given by that authority I have every reason to believe is the correct one, the generally accepted one.
• Life is sweet, and it will never be surrendered by one who has a correct appreciation of its Author, until every consistent effort has been made to preserve it.
• Bennett was correct in his surmise that there were two stores in the little village of Hampton.
• At once he knew that his first surmise, that the Girl was an American, had been correct.
• By the anxiety written on his face, life, fortune or love might be at stake upon the correct selection of route.
• Black ventured the assertion that they were waiting for daylight, and his surmise proved correct.
• Byron was at pains to make his accessories correct.
• The doctor did not correct her, and evidently must have told her something different from what he told me.
• The reader must draw from these results whatever conclusion seems to him the most correct.
• But although many suggestions were brought out in the discussion, none of them were fully accepted as correct.
• Indeed, events had occurred in such a manner as to make her responsibility seem natural and inevitable, to give it the sanction of the most correct convention.
• But his intelligence did not prove to be correct, for De Cornusson passed it the evening before.
• He spoke perfectly correct English with a marked foreign accent.
• If you are in a position to do so, the most correct proceeding is to invite him to dine with you.
• The contention I have held for the last three years is at last said to be correct.
• To the gossiping public this was evidence enough that the rumor was correct.
• When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

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