correctly

English

Etymology

From correct +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/

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• Hyphenation: cor‧rect‧ly

Adverb

correctly (comparative more correctly, superlative most correctly)

1. In a correct manner.

   Synonyms: accurately, exactly, precisely; see also Thesaurus:exactly

   Synonyms: decently, morally, rightly; see also Thesaurus:virtuously

   Antonym: incorrectly

   Most people couldn't pronounce Daragh's name correctly, so he went by the name of "Dave" instead.

   • 2024 May 30, Aimee Ortiz and Alexandra E. Petri, “From 74th Place to Spelling Champion: One Boy’s Journey to Win the Scripps Bee”, in The New York Times‎:

     Bruhat rattled off a head-spinning 29 correctly spelled words in 90 seconds, including heautophany, nachschläge and puszta.

Related terms

• politically correctly

Translations

in a correct manner

Assamese: ভালকৈ (bhalkoi) Bulgarian: вярно (bg) (vjarno), правилно (bg) (pravilno) Burmese: မှန်မှန် (hmanhman) Catalan: correctament (ca) Czech: správně (cs) Dutch: correct (nl), juist (nl), goed (nl) Esperanto: korekte Finnish: oikein (fi), korrektisti (fi) French: correctement (fr) Galician: correctamente (gl) Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐌰𐌱𐌰 (raihtaba) Greek: Ancient: ὀρθῶς (orthôs), προσηκόντως (prosēkóntōs) Ingrian: vernoist Italian: correttamente (it) Korean: 정확(正確)히 (ko) (jeonghwakhi) Latin: emendate Occitan: corrèctament Persian: تعریب (fa) (ta'rêb), درست (fa) (dorost) Polish: poprawnie (pl), prawidłowo (pl), właściwie (pl) Portuguese: corretamente (pt) Romanian: corect (ro), în mod corect Russian: пра́вильно (ru) (právilʹno) Sanskrit: ऋजु (sa) (ṛju) Serbo-Croatian: tačno (sh), тачно Slovak: správne Slovene: pravílno Spanish: correctamente (es) Swedish: korrekt (sv), rätt (sv), riktigt (sv)