correctadjective
uk/kəˈrekt/us/kəˈrekt/A2 in agreement with the true facts or with what is generally accepted:
a correct answer
"Is that the correct spelling?" "I don't know - look it up in a dictionary."
It's not correct to describe them as "students".
formal "Your name is Angela Black?" "That is correct."
Synonym
right
Opposite
incorrect
B1 taking or showing great care to behave or speak in a way that is generally accepted and approved of:
He's very correct in his dress/speech/manner, isn't he?
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- Put a tick opposite the answer that you think is correct.
- Your information is correct but you left out one thing.
- Let's get this straight - you're travelling to Frankfurt on Monday and Brussels on Tuesday, is that correct?
- I got eight correct answers and two wrong ones in last week's exam.
- You must follow correct procedure at all times.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- sharp
- strictly speaking idiom
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
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Suitable and acceptable
correctly
adverb uk/kəˈrekt.li/us/kəˈrekt.li/
B1
Have I pronounced your name correctly?
correctness
noun [ U ] uk/kəˈrekt.nəs/us/kəˈrekt.nəs/
He speaks with such correctness (= care) that it sometimes sounds very formal.
correctverb [ T ]
uk/kəˈrekt/us/kəˈrekt/B2 to show or tell someone that something is wrong and to make it right:
Students said it was helpful if the teacher corrected their pronunciation.
I have 30 homework assignments to correct.
If a medical treatment corrects a particular condition, it cures the condition or makes it easier to manage:
glasses to correct poor vision
a chair that corrects bad posture
correct me if I'm wrong but...
said as a polite and slightly formal way of disagreeing with someone:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we arranged the meeting for the 12 December.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- put/set sb right idiom
- reconstruction
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- revised
- smooth
- sort sth/sb out
- troubleshooting
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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Recovering from illness
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