- 2. Punish, chasten, discipline.
- 3. Change the quality of (by something of an opposite character), modify, improve.
Correct, a. Faultless, exact, precise, accurate, right, true, proper, free from error, not faulty.
Correction, n.
- 1. Amendment, improvement, redress.
- 2. Chastening, punishment, discipline.
- 3. Change (in quality, by something opposite), modification, alteration.
Corrective, a. Rectifying, reformatory, alterative, modifying, improving, correctory.
Corrective, n. Modifying agent, corrective agent.
Correctness, n. Accuracy, exactness, nicety, precision, truth, propriety, faultlessness.
Correlate, n. Correlative, counterpart, complement, complemental term.
Correlative, a. Reciprocal, complemental, complementary.
Correlative, n. See correlate, n.
Correspond, v. n.
- 1. Agree, suit, fit, answer, accord, harmonize, tally, square, comport, cohere, be accordant.
- 2. Answer, correlate, belong, stand counter, be complemental.
- 3. Communicate (by letter), write letters.
Correspondence, n.
- 1. Coincidence, concurrence, congruity, fitting relation, reciprocal adaptation.
- 2. Correlation, complemental relation, counterposition.
- 3. Intercourse or communication by letters, epistolary intercourse.
- 4. Letters.