Antonyms of verb correct
1 of 8 senses of correct
Sense 1
correct, rectify, right -- (make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation")
Antonym of falsify (Sense 4)
=> falsify -- (falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb correct
8 senses of correct
Sense 1
correct, rectify, right -- (make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation")
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse -- (change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern")
Sense 2
right, compensate, redress, correct -- (make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust")
=> change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")
Sense 3
chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct -- (censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks")
=> call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast -- (censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup")
Sense 4
compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up -- (adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance")
=> balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise -- (bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights")
Sense 5
discipline, correct, sort out -- (punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently")
=> punish, penalize, penalise -- (impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again")
Sense 6
decline, slump, correct -- (go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped")
=> descend, fall, go down, come down -- (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again")
Sense 7
adjust, set, correct -- (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels")
=> change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")
Sense 8
correct -- (treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia")
=> treat, care for -- (provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics")
Antonyms of adj corrected
1 sense of corrected
Sense 1
corrected (vs. uncorrected) -- (having something undesirable neutralized; "with glasses her corrected vision was 20:20")
uncorrected (vs. corrected) -- (left faulty or wrong; "uncorrected astigmatism")
=> unremedied -- (not having been put right; "unremedied errors")
Similarity of adj corrected
1 sense of corrected
Sense 1
corrected (vs. uncorrected) -- (having something undesirable neutralized; "with glasses her corrected vision was 20:20")
=> aplanatic -- (free from or corrected for spherical aberration; "an aplanatic mirror")
=> apochromatic -- (corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration; "an apochromatic lens")
=> rectified -- (having been put right)
