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Definitions for correctly
cor·rect·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. correctly, right, arightadverb

    in an accurate manner

    "the flower had been correctly depicted by his son"; "he guessed right"

Wiktionary

  1. correctlyadverb

    In a correct manner.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Correctlyadverb

    Accurately; appositely; exactly; without faults.

    Etymology: from correct.

    There are ladies, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly and as correctly as most gentlemen who have been bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar schools. John Locke, on Education.

    Such lays as neither ebb nor flow,
    Correctly cold, and regularly low. Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism.

ChatGPT

  1. correctly

    Correctly is defined as in accordance with fact, truth, or proper rules or standards. It refers to doing something accurately or exactly as it should be done, without any errors or mistakes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Correctlyadverb

    in a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'correctly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4752

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'correctly' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4260

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'correctly' in Adverbs Frequency: #300

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of correctly in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of correctly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of correctly in a Sentence

  1. Chuck Schumer:

    Until we hear from the witnesses, until we get the documents, the American people will correctly assume that those blocking their testimony were aiding and abetting a cover up, plain and simple, president President Donald Trump, release the emails, let the witnesses testify, what are you afraid of ?

  2. Scott Jennings:

    Having somebody like Emmet sitting behind you makes you feel a lot better about life, i think I'm the last sitting White House staffer to go to Capitol Hill and correctly invoke executive privilege on behalf of the president.

  3. Kara Swisher:

    As you said, It's as big as an economy. It's a country, with 3 billion people, they’re not monitoring it correctly. And at the very top, we have someone who is unfireable, unaccountable and really can do whatever he wants and is spectacularly unsuited to the task.

  4. Richard Hayes:

    It's a wonderful way of laundering conflict gold, the gold is genuine, but it's not ethically sourced ... They look completely genuine, they assay correctly, and they weigh correctly as well.

  5. Tesla CEO:

    Goal is for repaired car to be better than before accident, should always be true if damaged/used parts are correctly replaced with newer parts.

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