correct

/kəˈrɛkt/

意味: 訂正する

例文: Lena tried to correct Momo’s grammar—failed.
　　  レナはモモの文法を直そうとして失敗。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: correct answer(正しい答え), correct behavior(正しい行動), correct spelling(正しい綴り)

定義: 正しい、間違いがないことを意味します。何かが正確で、誤りがない状態を指します。間違いを修正することも含まれます。

correctは約20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: make right or correct
Verb: make reparations or amends for
Verb: censure severely
Verb: adjust for
Verb: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
Verb: go down in value
Verb: alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
Verb: treat a defect
Adjective: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
Adjective: socially right or correct
Adjective: in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
Adjective: correct in opinion or judgment

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Please correct the errors in your report.(レポートの誤りを訂正してください。)
Is this the correct answer to the question?(これは質問への正しい答えですか？)
She gave me the correct directions to the station.(彼女は駅への正しい道順を教えてくれました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: Correct the mistakes
Verb: rectify the calculation
Verb: right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
Verb: She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
Verb: engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
Verb: The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently
Verb: the stock market corrected
Verb: prices slumped
Verb: Adjust the clock, please
Verb: correct the alignment of the front wheels
Verb: The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia
Adjective: the correct answer
Adjective: the correct version
Adjective: the right answer
Adjective: took the right road
Adjective: the right decision
Adjective: it isn’t right to leave the party without saying goodbye
Adjective: correct behavior
Adjective: what’s the right word for this?
Adjective: the right way to open oysters
Adjective: time proved him right

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): adjust, castigate, chasten, chastise, compensate, correct, counterbalance, decline, discipline, even off, even out, even up, make up, objurgate, rectify, redress, right, set, slump, sort out

Antonyms(反意語): falsify, incorrect, wrong

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): balance, call on the carpet, change, change by reversal, descend, punish, treat

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, administer, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alight, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, amerce, americanize, analyze, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, avalanche, awaken, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, bleed, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, camp, cancel, capture, cascade, castigate, cause to sleep, cauterize, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, chastise, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commutate, commute, compensate, complement, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, correct, corrupt, counterchange, crack, crash, cry, cup, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decline, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desecrate, desensitize, destabilize, desynchronize, detox, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discipline, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, dive, diversify, dizzy, doctor, domesticate, dope, draw, dress, drip, drop, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, execute, extend, exteriorize, falsify, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, flop, freeze, frenchify, full, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, hyperventilate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insufflate, insulate, intensify, interchange, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, iodize, ionate, irrigate, islamize, isomerize, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, manipulate, mark, masculinize, massage, mechanize, medicate, metamorphose, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, nurse, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, offset, opacify, opalize, operate on, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, pack, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, permute, personalize, piggyback, pillory, pitch, plasticize, plop, poison, polarize, politicize, port, pounce, precipitate, professionalize, prolapse, proof, prostrate, purge, purify, put, radicalize, rappel, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relax, remedy, remodel, restore, revenge, revert, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scourge, scramble, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shock, shorten, simplify, sink, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, splint, sputter, stabilize, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, switch over, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tar-and-feather, tell off, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, trim, tumble, turn, turn back, turn the tables, uglify, unclutter, undo, unhorse, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, vet, victimize, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): align, attune, calibrate, carry, citify, cover, debug, depressurize, expiate, flame, focus, harmonize, justify, linearize, match, modulate, over-correct, plumb, pressurize, proportion, readjust, rectify, regulate, set, synchronize, temper, time, trim, tune, zero

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: adjustable, adjuster, adjustive, adjustment, castigation, chastisement, compensation, correction, corrective, correctness, corrigible, counterbalance, discipline, objurgation, rectification, redress, right, rightness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): co

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1

Movies(映画): Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: