correct, accurate, exact, precise, nice, right mean conforming to fact, standard, or truth. correct usually implies freedom from fault or error.

CORRECT definition: to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The new glasses corrected his eyesight. See examples of correct used in a sentence.

CORRECT definition: 1. in agreement with the true facts or with what is generally accepted: 2. taking or showing great…. Learn more.

These verbs mean to make right what is wrong. Correct refers to eliminating faults, errors, or defects: I corrected the spelling mistakes. The new design corrected the flaws in the earlier version.

to scold or punish in order to improve: Don't correct your child in public. to work against the effect of (something undesirable): Her contact lenses correct her poor eyesight.

If you correct someone, you say something which you think is more accurate or appropriate than what they have just said. "Actually, that isn't what happened," George corrects me.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English cor‧rect1 /kəˈrekt/ S1 W2 adjective 1 having no mistakes SYN right OPP incorrect If my calculations are correct, we’re about ten miles from Exeter. …

CORRECT meaning: 1 : true or accurate agreeing with facts right; 2 : having no errors or mistakes

Definition of correct adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Some common synonyms of correct are accurate, exact, nice, precise, and right. While all these words mean "conforming to fact, standard, or truth," correct usually implies freedom from fault or error.