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Correctly vs Correctively - What's the difference?

correctly | correctively |

As adverbs the difference between correctly and correctively

is that correctly is in a correct manner while correctively is in a corrective manner; so as to correct something.

correctly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a correct manner.

    • Antonyms

    * incorrectly

    correctively

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a corrective manner; so as to correct something.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 20, author=Melissa Clark, title=A Dish Whose Heart Longs for Spring, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=I would throw in radishes, too, which would add a correctively spicy bite to keep things from getting too cloying. }}