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Exact Match:

correct

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"

socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"

in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"

treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"

make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"

Synonyms:

• 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