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Adjective: straight (straighter,straightest) streyt- Successive (without a break)
"sick for five straight days"
- consecutive - Having no deviations
"straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders" - (of hair) having no waves or curls
"her naturally straight hair hung long and silky" - Erect in posture
"sit straight"
- unbent, unbowed - In keeping with the facts
"set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report" - Characterized by honesty and fairness
"straight dealing"
- square - No longer coiled
- uncoiled - Free from curves or angles
"a straight line" - Neatly arranged; not disorderly
"the room is straight now" - Not homosexual
- Accurately fitted; level
- true - Without evasion or compromise
- square, straightforward - Without water
- neat, full-strength - Following a correct or logical method
"straight reasoning" - Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- square
Adverb: straight streyt- Without deviation
- directly, direct - In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
"told me straight out"
- directly, flat - In a straight line; in a direct course
"the road runs straight"
Noun: straight streyt- A heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, hetero - A poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- A straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
- straightaway
Sounds like: strait Derived forms: straighter, straightest, straights See also: aboveboard, accurate, aligned, configuration, conformation, continuous, contour, conventional, correct, curliness, direct, erect, even, form, guileless, heterosexual, honest, honestness, honesty, honorable [US], honourable [Brit, Cdn], lawful, perpendicular, right, shape, straightarrow, straightforward, straightness, tidy, trabeate, trabeated, transparent, unbent, uncurled, uncurved, uncurving, undiluted, uninterrupted, unpermed, untwisted, upright, vertical, waviness Type of: individual, mortal, person, poker hand, section, segment, somebody, someone, soul Antonym: crooked, curly, curved Encyclopedia: Straight, Incorporated Straight Straight, Place and Show Straight, No Chaser |