| 单词 | straightness |
| 释义 | straightness (once / 18821 pages) n WORD FAMILY straightness: straightnesses+/straight: straighten, straighter, straightest, straightly, straightness, straights/straighten: straightened, straightener, straightening, straightens/straightener: straighteners USAGE EXAMPLESMany Americans believe that identity is constructed of whatever differentiates a person from what is falsely considered neutral: whiteness, straightness, and maleness. The New Yorker(Sep 20, 2016) Chosen for use in The Clock because of strength/weight/straightness. Washington Times(Nov 08, 2015) Do you leave your straightness “in the house?” Salon(Oct 15, 2015) 1n (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl Ant|Hyper curliness, waviness (of hair) a tendency to curl curvature, curve the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface 2n freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles Ant|Hyper crookedness having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles configuration, conformation, contour, form, shape any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) 3n trueness of course toward a goal Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper directness indirectness having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal downrightness, straightforwardness the quality of being direct and straightforward immediacy, immediatenesslack of an intervening or mediating agency pointednessthe quality of being obviously directed at a particular person or thing characteristic a distinguishing quality 4n having honest intentions Syn|Hyper good faith honestness, honesty the quality of being honest 5n a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex Syn|Hyper heterosexualism, heterosexuality sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice activities associated with sexual intercourse |
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