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Correct vs Seasonable - What's the difference?

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Correct is a related term of seasonable.


As adjectives the difference between correct and seasonable

is that correct is free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth while seasonable is opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.

As a verb correct

is to make something that was not valid become right to remove error.

correct

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
  • With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
  • Synonyms

    * (with good manners) well-mannered, well behaved

    Antonyms

    * (without error) incorrect, inaccurate * (with good manners) uncouth

    Derived terms

    * anatomically correct * correctly * hypercorrect * incorrect

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
  • He corrected the position of the book on the mantle.
  • (by extension) To grade (examination papers).
  • To inform (someone) of the latter's error.
  • It's rude to correct your parents.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * correctable * correction * uncorrectable

    seasonable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
  • Thomas Salusbury (1662):' ''Nor is it '''seasonable to have to do with Hercules, whil'st he is enraged, and amongst the Furies.
  • Appropriate to the current season of the year.
  • The temperature outside was quite seaonable , neither warmer nor colder than I had expected.
  • *1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
  • *:It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.
  • (obsolete) Ephemeral; lasting for just one season.
  • (obsolete) In season (said of game when it is legal to be hunted and killed).
  • (obsolete) Well-seasoned; matured (e.g. timber).
  • Antonyms

    * unseasonable

    Derived terms

    * seasonableness

    References

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