correctly

English

Etymology

correct +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɛk(t)li/
Audio (Mid-Atlantic) (file)
Hyphenation: cor‧rect‧ly

Adverb

correctly (comparative more correctly, superlative most correctly)

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

Synonyms

accurately, exactly, precisely; see also Thesaurus:exactly

Antonyms

incorrectly

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
Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐌰𐌱𐌰 (raihtaba)
Greek:
Ancient: ὀρθῶς (orthôs), προσηκόντως (prosēkóntōs)
Ingrian: vernoist
Italian: correttamente (it)
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)

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