correct
Free from mistakes
Correct means free from error or conforming to fact, standard, or convention: the correct answer, correct spelling, politically correct.
As a verb, to correct is to fix what's wrong—correcting a mistake, correcting a child's behavior, correcting course.
A correction in financial markets is a decline that adjusts inflated prices.
To stand corrected is to acknowledge you were wrong.
Perfectly correct, no deviation
- preciseExactly correct, no error
- rightMorally proper or entitled
- trueAccurate or loyal
- factualGrounded in truth
valid · reliable · truthful · authentic · verified · confirmed · sound · definitive
Reprove with counsel
- reprimandFormal expression of disapproval
- scoldRebuke harshly
- chideRebuke mildly
- chastiseReprimand severely for wrongdoing
reprove · rebuke · discipline · lecture · berate · castigate · upbraid · censure
fix
Repair or solution
adjust · remedy · repair · redress · modify · emend · rework · tweak · proofread · debug
exact
Perfectly correct, no deviation
factual · valid · reliable · truthful · authentic · verified · confirmed · sound · definitive · unerring
admonish
Reprove with counsel
chastise · reprove · rebuke · discipline · lecture · berate · castigate · upbraid · censure · criticize
appropriate
Suited to circumstance
acceptable · right · decorous · seemly · apt · becoming · conventional · orthodox · standard · customary
- Feedback Phrasesgood job, well done, nice work, great job, excellent
- accuracyaccurate, precise, exact, right, true
- affirmativesyes, yeah, yep, yup, absolutely
- binary statesyes, no, true, false, on
- Editing Tasksproofreading, proofread, spellcheck, revise, edit
- editorial actionsedit, revise, proofread, publish, review
correctimproper
Lacking in propriety
inappropriate · wrong · incorrect · unseemly · indecorous
- correct answerAccurate solution sought
- politically correctAvoiding discriminatory expression
- stand correctedAcknowledge one was mistaken
- political correctnessAvoiding exclusionary language
- course correctionMid-journey directional fix
- correct spellingAccurate written form
incorrect, correctly, correction, corrected, correcting, correctness, incorrectly, corrects, corrective