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What is the adjective for correctitudes?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs correct and correctify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

correctional
  1. Of, pertaining to, or intended for correction.
  2. (chiefly US) Of or pertaining to the imprisonment or rehabilitation of convicted criminals.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. disciplinary, punitive, penal, corrective, penalising, penalizing, castigating, chastening, chastising, correcting, disciplining, punitory, retaliative, retaliatory, punishing, penitentiary, castigatory, retributive, disciplinarian, reformatory, vindictive, revengeful, castigative, in retaliation, in reprisal, retributory, vindicatory, reformative, justificatory, defensive, ordered, vengeful, avenging, reciprocal, reactive, tit-for-tat … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Programme evaluation is critically important to the advancement of correctional rehabilitation knowledge.”
      “The duty of care owed by correctional officers to take steps to protect the inmates is a reasonable one.”
      “Dani is remanded to the juvenile correctional facility for conduct unbecoming a minor.”
correct
  1. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
  2. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. right, accurate, precise, true, exact, veracious, faultless, flawless, strict, certain, conclusive, definitive, faithful, infallible, irrefutable, perfect, reliable, unambiguous, undeniable, undisputed, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unrefuted, valid, error-free, errorless, proper, unerring, appropriate, dead-on, good, meticulous, OK, on-target, regular, scrupulous, so, spot-on, standard, word-perfect, acceptable, bang on, O.K., actual, amen, equitable, factual, impeccable, just, legitimate … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Only minor investigating instead of immediate reporting would have revealed the correct facts behind the story.”
      “Just as Paul saw himself as exemplifying the correct behavior, so also he saw himself as the model of exertion.”
corrective
  1. Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct
  2. Qualifying; limiting.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. remedial, reformatory, rectifying, remedying, amendatory, reformative, counteracting, reparative, ameliorative, reparatory, palliative, antidotal, counteractive, emendatory, restorative, improving, compensatory, preventive, solving, restitutive, repairing, helpful, alleviative, therapeutic, curative, medicinal, healing, refreshing, rejuvenating, rehabilitative, antiseptic, aseptic, curing, good, healthful, envigorating, invigorating, medicating, purifying, recuperative, rejuvenescent, sanitary, soothing, tonic … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It is only when it is present in large numbers that there is a need to take corrective action.”
      “The doctor claimed that the vitamins were a competent nutritional and corrective treatment for the prevention and cure of such conditions.”
      “The corrective sentence will be served in a special corrective institution in the locality where the accused is domiciled.”
correctory
  1. (archaic) Containing or making correction; corrective.
correcter
  1. (nonstandard) comparative form of correct: more correct
correctible
  1. Alternative form of correctable
  2. Synonyms:
      3. editable, correctable, rephrasable, alterable, emendable, flexible, improvable, modifiable, redraftable, revisable, rewritable … more
correctable
  1. Able to be corrected
  2. Synonyms:
      3. corrigible, repairable, remediable, fixable, redeemable, reparable, curable, rectifiable, treatable, improvable, mendable, restorable, medicable, operable, retrievable, able to be put right, recoverable, salvageable, amendable, emendable, able to be set right, capable, healable, reparative, responsive to treatment, subject to cure, solvable, resolvable, capable of solution, nonfatal, nonterminal … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Amblyopia or lazy eye is characterised by poor vision that is not correctable with glasses in an otherwise normal and healthy eye.”
      “Then consider how many laws, taxes, and restrictions have been imposed when it's not clear that there is a problem that's correctable.”
      “The tendon has become dysfunctional and the foot has developed acquired flatfoot, but the deformity is passively correctable.”
correctest
  1. superlative form of correct: most correct
corrected
  1. simple past tense and past participle of correct
  2. Synonyms:
      3. helped, benefited, benefitted, bolstered, facilitated, improved, ameliorated, amended, eased, maintained, restored, revived, bettered, boosted, sustained, meliorated, mitigated, stimulated, revitalised, saved, emended, enhanced, enriched, fixed, fixt, mended, moderated, perfected, rectified, refined, reformed, repaired, tempered, reanimated, resurrected, revitalized, revivified, vitalized, beefed up, edited, fined, fine-tuned, fortified, honed, polished, redrafted, refurbished, rehabbed, remediated, retouched … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This text is a corrected version of the fourth edition of Harrison and Sharp in its entirety.”
correcting
  1. present participle of correct
  2. Synonyms:
      3. rectifying, remedying, amending, emending, righting, curing, improving, redressing, ameliorating, bettering, reforming, altering, editing, putting right, repairing, revising, setting right, squaring, adjusting, debugging, redrafting, rescripting, rewording, reworking, rewriting, making good, regulating, sorting out, changing, cleaning up, doctoring, helping, mending, modifying, polishing, reclaiming, reconstructing, remodeling, remodelling, reorganising, reorganizing, retouching, reviewing, scrubbing, upgrading, clearing up, dealing with, ironing out, patching up, red-pencilling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Meanwhile, suspension, pay reduction, and reprimands are correcting punishments, for these temporarily take away benefits derived from the status as a civil servant.”
correctified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of correctify
correctifying
  1. present participle of correctify
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