correctly

English

Etymology

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.

   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

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)

• Italian: correttamente (it)

• Latin: emendate
• Occitan: corrèctament
• Persian: تعریب‎ (fa) (ta'reeb), 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)