'Straight' definitions:
Definition of 'straight'
From: WordNet
adverb
Without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" [syn: directly, straight, direct]
adverb
In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight] [ant: indirectly]
adverb
In a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs straight"
adjective
Successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days" [syn: straight, consecutive]
adjective
Having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders" [ant: crooked]
adjective
(of hair) having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky" [ant: curly]
adjective
Erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back" [syn: straight, unbent, unbowed]
adjective
In keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report"
adjective
Characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal" [syn: straight, square] [ant: corrupt, crooked]
adjective
adjective
adjective
Neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now"
adjective
Not homosexual
adjective
Accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true" [syn: true, straight]
adjective
Without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" [syn: square(a), straightforward, straight]
adjective
Without water; "took his whiskey neat" [syn: neat, straight, full-strength]
adjective
Following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"
adjective
Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned [syn: square, straight]
noun
A heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex [syn: heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight]
noun
A poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
noun
A straight segment of a roadway or racecourse [syn: straightaway, straight]
Definition of 'Straight'
From: GCIDE
- Straight \Straight\, adv. In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark. "Floating straight." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Everything was going on straight. --W. Black. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Straight'
From: GCIDE
- Straight \Straight\, n. (Poker) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Straight'
From: GCIDE
- Straight \Straight\, v. t. To straighten. [R.] --A Smith. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Straight'
From: GCIDE
- Straight \Straight\, a. A variant of Strait, a. [Obs. or R.] [1913 Webster]
- Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. --Sir J. Mandeville. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Straight'
From: GCIDE
- Straight \Straight\, a. [Compar. Straighter; superl. Straightest.] [OE. strei?t, properly p. p. of strecchen to stretch, AS. streht, p. p. of streccan to stretch, to extend. See Stretch.]
- 1. Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber. [1913 Webster]
- And the crooked shall be made straight. --Isa. xl. 4. [1913 Webster]
- There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Card Playing) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- 6. Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot. [Political Cant, U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- Straight arch (Arch.), a form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a common arch.
- A straight face, one giving no evidence of merriment or other emotion.
- A straight line. "That which lies evenly between its extreme points." --Euclid. "The shortest line between two points." --Chauvenet. "A line which has the same direction through its whole length." --Newcomb.
- Straight-way valve, a valve which, when opened widely, affords a straight passageway, as for water. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'straight'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboveboard,
- absolute,
- absolutely,
- accordant,
- accurate,
- accurately,
- ace,
- admitting no exception,
- agreed,
- air line,
- all right,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- amorous,
- anal,
- angelic,
- arranged,
- arrowlike,
- articulated,
- artless,
- at once,
- authentic,
- away,
- axis,
- bare,
- beeline,
- best bower,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bona fide,
- born,
- bourgeois,
- bower,
- broad,
- broad-based,
- brusque,
- button-down,
- candid,
- candidly,
- cards,
- carnal,
- categorical,
- catenated,
- ceaseless,
- chord,
- clarified,
- clean,
- clear,
- clubs,
- complete,
- composed,
- comprehensive,
- compulsive,
- concatenated,
- concentrated,
- conclusive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- congenital,
- connected,
- constant,
- consummate,
- continual,
- continued,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- conventional,
- correct,
- correctly,
- corresponding,
- cyclical,
- dead,
- dead ahead,
- dead right,
- dead straight,
- decent,
- decided,
- decisive,
- deck,
- deep-dyed,
- definite,
- definitely,
- definitive,
- dependable,
- determinate,
- deuce,
- diagonal,
- diameter,
- diamonds,
- direct,
- direct line,
- directly,
- directrix,
- distilled,
- down the alley,
- downright,
- due,
- due north,
- dummy,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- edge,
- egregious,
- emotionless,
- endless,
- entire,
- equitable,
- erect,
- erogenic,
- erogenous,
- erotic,
- erotogenic,
- even,
- exactly,
- exhaustive,
- explicit,
- explicitly,
- express,
- expressly,
- face cards,
- fair,
- fair and square,
- faithfully,
- faithworthy,
- faultless,
- faultlessly,
- featureless,
- final,
- fixed,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- flawless,
- flawlessly,
- fleshly,
- flush,
- formalistic,
- forthright,
- forthwith,
- foursquare,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- full,
- full house,
- gamic,
- gapless,
- genuine,
- global,
- godly,
- good,
- good-faith,
- great-circle course,
- hand,
- harmonious,
- heart-to-heart,
- hearts,
- heterosexual,
- honest,
- honestly,
- honorable,
- horizontal,
- immediate,
- immediately,
- impassive,
- implicit,
- in a beeline,
- in a line,
- in accord,
- in all respects,
- in every respect,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in line with,
- in order,
- in step,
- inappealable,
- incessant,
- incorruptible,
- indisputable,
- ingenuous,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- intensive,
- interminable,
- inviolable,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- irreversible,
- jack,
- joined,
- jointless,
- joker,
- just,
- just right,
- just so,
- kerplunk,
- king,
- knave,
- kosher,
- left bower,
- legitimate,
- letter-perfect,
- level,
- libidinal,
- lineal,
- linear,
- linked,
- literally,
- literatim,
- meticulous,
- monotonous,
- moral,
- naked,
- neat,
- never-ending,
- no-nonsense,
- nonstop,
- normal,
- now,
- nuptial,
- OK,
- okay,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- on the beam,
- on the level,
- on the square,
- on the straight,
- on the up-and-up,
- one-way,
- open,
- open and aboveboard,
- openhearted,
- orderly,
- organized,
- orthodox,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- outspoken,
- oversexed,
- pack,
- pair,
- pedantic,
- peremptory,
- perennial,
- perfect,
- perfectly,
- periodic,
- perpendicular,
- pervasive,
- picture cards,
- plain,
- plain dealing,
- plain-spoken,
- plainly,
- plastic,
- playing cards,
- plop,
- plumb,
- plump,
- plunk,
- point-blank,
- positive,
- positively,
- potent,
- precisely,
- precisianistic,
- procreative,
- promptly,
- proper,
- properly,
- proven,
- pure,
- purified,
- queen,
- radical,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- rectified,
- rectilineal,
- rectilinear,
- recurrent,
- regular,
- reliable,
- repetitive,
- respectable,
- responsible,
- right,
- right away,
- right line,
- right off,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- rightly,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- round,
- round-the-clock,
- royal flush,
- rubber,
- ruff,
- ruler-straight,
- running,
- saintlike,
- saintly,
- seamless,
- secant,
- sedate,
- segment,
- sensual,
- seraphic,
- serious,
- serried,
- settled,
- sex,
- sexed,
- sexlike,
- sexual,
- sexy,
- sheer,
- shipshape,
- shortcut,
- sic,
- side,
- simple,
- simply,
- sincere,
- single-hearted,
- singleton,
- smack,
- smack-dab,
- smooth,
- so,
- sober,
- spades,
- spang,
- spruce,
- square,
- square-dealing,
- square-shooting,
- squarely,
- stable,
- staid,
- steady,
- straight across,
- straight ahead,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straight up,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-out,
- straight-shooting,
- straight-side,
- straight-up-and-down,
- straightaway,
- straightforward,
- straightforwardly,
- straightforwards,
- straightly,
- straightway,
- streamline,
- streamlined,
- strictly,
- strong,
- stuffy,
- summarily,
- sure,
- sweeping,
- taciturn,
- tangent,
- tested,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through,
- through-and-through,
- tidy,
- to be trusted,
- to the letter,
- total,
- traditionalist,
- transparent,
- transversal,
- trey,
- trick,
- tried,
- tried and true,
- true,
- trump,
- trustable,
- trustworthy,
- trusty,
- twenty-four-hour,
- ubiquitous,
- unadulterated,
- unalloyed,
- unaltered,
- unambiguous,
- unambiguously,
- unbending,
- unbent,
- unblended,
- unbowed,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- unchecked,
- uncircumscribed,
- uncombined,
- uncompounded,
- unconditional,
- unconstrained,
- uncorrupted,
- uncurved,
- uncut,
- undeflected,
- undersexed,
- undeviating,
- undeviatingly,
- undifferentiated,
- undiluted,
- undistorted,
- undoubting,
- unembellished,
- unemotional,
- unending,
- unequivocal,
- unequivocally,
- unerringly,
- unfalse,
- unfortified,
- unguarded,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- unidirectional,
- uniform,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- universal,
- unleavened,
- unlimited,
- unmingled,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unmixed,
- unmodified,
- unperfidious,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unrelieved,
- unremitting,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestricted,
- unsmiling,
- unsophisticated,
- unstopped,
- unswerving,
- unswervingly,
- untinged,
- untreacherous,
- unturned,
- unveeringly,
- unwaivable,
- up-and-up,
- upright,
- upstanding,
- uptight,
- utter,
- vector,
- venereal,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- veritable,
- vertical,
- virtuous,
- voluptuous,
- whole,
- wholesale,
- without delay,
- without exception,
- without reserve,
- word by word,
- word for word
Words containing 'Straight'
- Straighted,
- Straighting,
- Straightly,
- Straightness,
- straight off,
- straight out,
- A straight face,
- A straight line,
- Straight arch,
- Straight ticket,
- Straight-out,
- go straight,
- put straight,
- set straight,
- straight and narrow,
- straight angle,
- straight arrow,
- straight chain,
- straight chair,
- straight face,
- straight faced,
- straight flush,
- straight flute,
- straight hang,
- straight line,
- straight man,
- straight person,
- straight pin,
- straight poker,
- straight razor,
- straight shooter,
- straight shooting,
- straight sinus,
- straight thrust,
- Straight-joint,
- Straight-lined,
- Straight-pight,
- Straight-spoken,
- To draw a straight furrow,
- straight life insurance,
- straight-arm,
- straight-backed,
- straight-billed,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- straight-grained,
- straight-laced,
- straight-legged,
- Projection of a straight line of a plane,
- Straight-way valve,
- straight-fluted drill,
- straight-line method,
- straight-line method of depreciation