DICTOMETER

RETT (Norwegian for "correct")

(correct, course, court, dish, justice, law, right, straight, correcto, justicia, ley, plato, recto, tribunal)

1. Synonyms:
   • Correct
   • Rectify
   • Right
   Definitions:
   • make right or correct
   Examples:
   • Correct the mistakes
   • Rectify the calculation
   Antonyms:
   falsify
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Right
   • Compensate
   • Redress
   • Correct
   Definitions:
   • make reparations or amends for
   Examples:
   • Right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Chastise
   • Castigate
   • Objurgate
   • Chasten
   • Correct
   Definitions:
   • censure severely
   Examples:
   • She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Compensate
   • Counterbalance
   • Correct
   • Make up
   • Even out
   • Even off
   • Even up
   Definitions:
   • adjust for
   Examples:
   • Engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Discipline
   • Correct
   • Sort out
   Definitions:
   • punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
   Examples:
   • The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Decline
   • Slump
   • Correct
   Definitions:
   • go down in value
   Examples:
   • The stock market corrected
   • Prices slumped
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Adjust
   • Set
   • Correct
   Definitions:
   • alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
   Examples:
   • Adjust the clock, please
   • Correct the alignment of the front wheels
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Correct
   Definitions:
   • treat a defect
   Examples:
   • The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Correct
   • Right
   Definitions:
   • free from error
   • especially conforming to fact or truth
   Examples:
   • The correct answer
   • The correct version
   • The right answer
   • Took the right road
   • The right decision
   Antonyms:
   • INCORRECT
   • erroneous
   • fallacious
   • false, mistaken
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Correct
   • Right
   Definitions:
   • socially right or correct
   Examples:
   • It isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye
   • Correct behavior
   Antonyms:
   • Improper
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Correct
   • Right
   Definitions:
   • in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
   Examples:
   • What's the right word for this?
   • The right way to open oysters
   Antonyms:
   • Improper
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Right
   • Correct
   Definitions:
   • correct in opinion or judgment
   Examples:
   • Time proved him right
   Antonyms:
   • HT