Correct vs Correctitude - What's the difference?
correct | correctitude |
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.
The quality of being correct
*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Lytton Strachey, title=Queen Victoria, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude ; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=July 19, author=Harold Henderson, title=The City File, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude ?" }}
As an adjective correct
is free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.As a verb correct
is to make something that was not valid become right to remove error.As a noun correctitude is
the quality of being correct.correct
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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.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* correctable * correction * uncorrectableExternal links
* * * 1000 English basic words ----correctitude
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