correct vs false vs wrong
Definitions
verb
- make reparations or amends for
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- make right or correct
- censure severely
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
adjective
- free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
- socially right or correct
- in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
- correct in opinion or judgment
Examples
In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
Definitions
adjective
- erroneous and usually accidental
- inappropriate to reality or facts
- arising from error
- designed to deceive
- not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
adverb
- in a disloyal and faithless manner
Examples
It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope.
Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance.
Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate.
