correctly
Syllables: cor·rect·lyUK/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/
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Australia/kəˈɹek(t).li/
correctly adverb: in a correct manner.
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.
- Bruhat rattled off a head-spinning 29 correctly spelled words in 90 seconds, including heautophany, nachschläge and puszta.2024 May 30, Aimee Ortiz and Alexandra E. Petri, “From 74th Place to Spelling Champion: One Boy’s Journey to Win the Scripps Bee”, in The New York Times
- Synonyms:
- accurately, exactly, precisely, dead-nuts, definitely, directly, even, for sure, exact, fully
- Antonyms:
- incorrectly
correctly meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
correctly in Hindi
- correctly
- सीधे sīdhe
correctly in Tamil
- செவ்வனம், வள்ளிசாய், செழுவிதின், செவ்வே, செப்பட, சரியாக
correctly in Marathi
- correctly, exactly
- बरोबर barobar
correctly in Bengali
- correctly, accurately, exactly
- সঠিক śoṭhik
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- correctly in Malayalam
- ശരിയായി, കൃത്യമായി, സൂക്ഷ്മമായി, പിഴവില്ലാതെ
- correctly in Sanskrit
- ऋजु ṛju
- correctly in Assamese
- ভালকৈ bhalkoi
- correctly in Persian
- تعریب ta'rêb, درست dorost
- correctly in Myanmar
- မှန်မှန် hmanhman
Examples of correctly in a sentence
- Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.
- The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.
- This story needs to be read vertically to be understood correctly.
Synonyms of correctly
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Antonyms
Forms of correctly
| comparative | more correctly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most correctly |
Origin of correctly
From correct + -ly.
Questions about correctly
- What does correctly mean?
- Correctly means in a correct manner.
- What is correctly in Hindi?
- Correctly in Hindi is सीधे (sīdhe). See Correctly meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is correctly?
- Correctly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce correctly?
- Correctly is pronounced /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/ (UK).
Words near correctly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: correctly (page history and authors); सीधे (Hindi) (page history and authors); correctly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); बरोबर (Marathi) (page history and authors); সঠিক (Bengali) (page history and authors); correctly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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