Word Meanings - RECTIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. (more info) 1. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false

Additional info about word: RECTIFY

To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. (more info) 1. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. I meant to rectify my conscience. Shak. This was an error of opinion which a conflicting opinion would have rectified. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECTIFY)

• Ameliorate
• Improve
• raise
• better
• advantage
• promote
• advance
• amend
• rectify
• meliorate
• Amend
• mend
• repair
• correct
• ameliorate
• reform
• Better
• Meliorate
• improve
• emend
• Correct Chasten
• punish
• redress
• set right
• Disabuse
• Undeceive
• inform
• enlighten

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RECTIFY)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to RECTIFY)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.