Aright vs Correct - What's the difference?
aright | correct |
Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
*, I.56:
To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
* 2003 , John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy :
Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
(by extension) To grade (examination papers).
To inform (someone) of the latter's error.
In lang=en terms the difference between aright and correct
is that aright is to make right; put right; arrange or treat properly while correct is to inform (someone) of the latter's error.As verbs the difference between aright and correct
is that aright is to make right; put right; arrange or treat properly while correct is to make something that was not valid become right to remove error.As an adverb aright
is rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.As an adjective correct is
free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.aright
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)- it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) arighten, .Verb
(en verb)- But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (with good manners) well-mannered, well behavedAntonyms
* (without error) incorrect, inaccurate * (with good manners) uncouthDerived terms
* anatomically correct * correctly * hypercorrect * incorrectVerb
(en verb)- He corrected the position of the book on the mantle.
- It's rude to correct your parents.