Synonym: accurate, adjust, change, mark, proper, remedy, right, true. Antonym: incorrect, wrong. Similar words: correctly, correlation, correspondent, corresponding to, corridor, corrosion, corruption, record. Meaning: [kə'rekt] v. 1. make right or correct 2. make reparations or amends for 3. censure severely 4. adjust for 5. punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience 6. go down in value 7. alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard 8. treat a defect. adj. 1. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth 2. socially right or correct 3. in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure 4. correct in opinion or judgment.
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241. The first 10 correct entries drawn out of the hat will win a pair of tickets, worth £20 each.
242. After repeated education they still refused to correct their errors.
243. Spectacles correct faulty eyesight.
244. The flower drawings are all to scale and botanically correct.
245. When the mistake was pointed out to him, he hastened to correct it.
246. I must correct a false impression that I gave you just now.
247. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mahatma Gandhi
248. If you make a mistake and do not correct it,(http://sentencedict.com/correct.html) this is called a mistake. Confucius
249. An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. John F. Kennedy
250. How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli
251. If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus
252. You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. Friedrich Nietzsche
253. His surmise proved correct.
More similar words: correctly, correlation, correspondent, corresponding to, corridor, corrosion, corruption, record, recording, direct, director, directly, irrespective of, in all directions, direct investment, sorry, worry, horror, arrest, barrel, or rather, current, currency, horrible, currently, irreverence, quarrel with, cor, core, corn.