[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

correct \correct"\ k^orre^kt", a. l. correctus, p. p.
   of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to
   lead straight: cf. f. correct. see regular, right, and
   cf. escort.
   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.
   1913 webster

         always use the most correct editions.    --felton.

   syn: accurate; right, exact; precise; regular; faultless. see
        accurate.
        1913 webster
see also:
regular right escort accurate 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

correct \correct"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. corrected; p. pr. 
   vb. n. correcting.
   1. to make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice,
      or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or
      principles.
      1913 webster

            this is a defect in the first make of some men's
            minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.
                                                  --t. burnet.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

   3. 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.
      1913 webster

            my accuser is my 'prentice; and when i did correct
            him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his
            knees he would be even with me.       --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. 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.

   syn: to amend; rectify; emend; reform; improve; chastise;
        punish; discipline; chasten. see amend.
        1913 webster correctible
see also:
corrected correcting amend 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

correct
     adj 1: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;
            "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the
            right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right
            decision" syn: right ant: incorrect, incorrect
     2: socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the
        party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" syn: right
     3: in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
        "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open
        oysters" syn: right
     4: correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
        syn: right ant: wrong
     v 1: make right or correct; "correct the mistakes"; "rectify the
          calculation" syn: rectify, right ant: falsify
     2: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
        victims of the holocaust" syn: right, compensate, redress
        ant: wrong
     3: censure severely; "she chastised him for his insensitive
        remarks" syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten
     4: adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the
        effects or air resistance" syn: compensate, counterbalance,
         even out, even off, even up
     5: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "the
        teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" syn: discipline,
         sort out
     6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices
        slumped" syn: decline, slump
     7: alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a
        standard; "adjust the clock, please"; "correct the
        alignment of the front wheels" syn: adjust, set
     8: treat a defect; "the new contact lenses will correct for his
        myopia"
see also:
right incorrect wrong rectify falsify compensate 
redress chastise castigate objurgate chasten 
counterbalance even out even off even up discipline 
sort out decline slump adjust set 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

298 moby thesaurus words for "correct":
   christian, ok, absolute, accepted, accommodate, accommodate with,
   accord, according to hoyle, accurate, acknowledged, adapt,
   adapt to, adjectival, adjust, adjust to, admitted, admonish,
   adverbial, agree with, all right, ameliorate, amend, annul,
   appropriate, approved, apt, assimilate to, attentive, attributive,
   authentic, authoritative, awaken, be guided by, becoming,
   befitting, being done, bend, berate, better, blame, blue-pencil,
   break the spell, bring to account, bring to book, burst the bubble,
   call to account, cancel, canonical, careful, castigate, censure,
   change, chasten, chastise, chide, chime in with, close, comely,
   comme il faut, compensate, comply, comply with, compose, condign,
   conform, conformable, conforming, conjunctive, conscientious,
   conventional, copulative, correspond, counteract, counterbalance,
   critical, cure, customary, de rigueur, dead right, deal with,
   debunk, decent, decorous, delicate, demanding, detailed, disabuse,
   disappoint, discipline, disenchant, disillude, disillusion,
   disillusionize, done, due, edit, emend, emendate, enlighten,
   established, evangelical, exact, exacting, exigent, expose,
   exquisite, factual, faithful, fall in with, faultless, felicitous,
   fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, fit, fitting, fix,
   flawless, follow, formal, functional, fussy, gear to,
   give satisfaction, glossematic, go by, good, good-mannered, grade,
   grammatic, happy, harmonize, have words with, impeccable, improve,
   in order, inflict upon, inspired, intransitive, just, just right,
   kosher, lecture, let down easy, let in on, letter-perfect, linking,
   literal, make all square, make conform, make good, make over,
   make right, make up for, mannerly, mark, masthead, meet, mend,
   meticulous, minute, modify, mold, narrow, natural, neutralize,
   nice, nominal, normal, normative, nullify, objurgate, observe,
   of the faith, offset, okay, orthodox, orthodoxical, participial,
   particular, pay reparations, penalize, perfect, pillory,
   postpositional, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic,
   prepositional, prick the bubble, pronominal, proper, punctilious,
   punctual, punish, put right, put straight, put to rights, rate,
   rebuke, received, recense, recognized, recompense, reconcile,
   rectify, redact, redraft, redress, refined, reform, regulate,
   religious, remedy, remunerate, repair, reprehend, reprimand,
   reprove, requite, revamp, reverse, revise, rework, rewrite, right,
   right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigid, rigorous,
   rub off corners, scold, scriptural, scrupulous, scrutinizing,
   seemly, set, set down, set right, set straight, set to rights,
   set up, settle, settle with, shape, show up, sound, spank,
   square accounts, standard, straight, straight-up-and-down,
   straighten, straighten out, strict, structural, substantive,
   subtle, suit, suitable, syntactic, tagmemic, take down,
   take to task, tally with, tell the truth, textual, traditional,
   traditionalistic, transitive, true, true-blue, unblindfold,
   uncharm, undeceive, undistorted, unimpeachable, unspell, upbraid,
   usual, valid, veracious, verbal, veridical, vigorous, visit upon,
   wake up, well-behaved, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-mannered,
   well-put, well-spoken, work over, yield

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