Nouns (2)
straight
n. (hand)
straightaway
n. a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (7)
square, direct, directly
adv. without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
flop, right, flat, directly
adv. 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"
Adjectives (21)
straight
adj. following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"
straight
adj. (of hair) having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky"
straight
adj. not homosexual
straight
adj. having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
straight
adj. free from curves or angles; "a straight line"
straight
adj. characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal"
clean
adj. free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"
consecutive
adj. successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"
square
adj. rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
regular
adj. accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
true
adj. accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
orthotropous
adj. (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex
plain
adj. (unsarcastic)
uncoiled
adj. no longer coiled
neat, full-strength
adj. without water; "took his whiskey neat"
unswerving, undeviating
adj. going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside; "some people see evolution as an undeviating upward march from simple organisms to the very complex"; "a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands"
upright, unbowed, unbent
adj. erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
Fuzzynyms (40)
plumb, true
adj. exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"
straight, unswerving, undeviating
adj. going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside; "some people see evolution as an undeviating upward march from simple organisms to the very complex"; "a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands"
elongate, linear
adj. of a leaf shape; long and narrow
open, frank, open-hearted
adj. ready for business; "the stores are open"
moral
adj. concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles; "moral sense"; "a moral scrutiny"; "a moral lesson"; "a moral quandary"; "moral convictions"; "a moral life"
upright, good, virtuous, just
adj. of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"
virtuous
adj. morally excellent
pure
adj. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
pure
adj. free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
perfect
adj. being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
humble
adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
servile
adj. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"
straight
adj. having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
flop, right, flat, straight, directly
adv. 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"
face-to-face
adv. "She found herself face-to-face with a policeman"
forward, ahead, toward the future
adv. "Think ahead!"
plumb
adv. conforming to the direction of a plumb line
straight, square, direct, directly
adv. without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
face-to-face, directly, man-to-man
adv. without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
face-to-face
adv. "She found herself face-to-face with a policeman"
Synonyms (70)
exact, accurate, precise
adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
letter-perfect, word-perfect
adj. correct to the last detail; especially being in or following the exact words; "a letter-perfect rendition of the soliloquy"; "she was word-perfect in her part"
direct
adj. direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
vertical
adj. at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height"
honest, honorable, honourable
adj. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"
lawful
adj. conformable to or allowed by law; "lawful methods of dissent"
nonstop, around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock
adj. at all times; "around-the-clock nursing care"
incessant, perpetual, ceaseless, unceasing, unremitting
adj. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"
continual
adj. `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption)
free-burning, sustained, free burning
adj. (of an electric arc) continuous; "heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs"
sustained
adj. maintained at length without interruption or weakening; "sustained flight"
conservative, button-down, buttoned-down
adj. unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
trite, stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative
adj. lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"
plane, flat, level
adj. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
flush
adj. of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane; "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
level
adj. oriented at right angles to the plumb; "the picture is level"
smooth
adj. having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"
straight, true
adj. accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
plane, flat, level
adj. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
flush
adj. of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane; "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
level
adj. oriented at right angles to the plumb; "the picture is level"
straight, regular
adj. accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
smooth
adj. having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"
pleasant, droll
adj. (unsarcastic)
concentrated
adj. of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced
door-to-door
adj. (of e.g. journeys or deliveries) direct from point of origin to point of destination ; "the limousine offers door-to-door service"
face-to-face, person-to-person, FTF
adj. without intervening persons
nonstop
adj. (of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops; "a nonstop flight to Atlanta"
shortest, as the crow flies
adj. proceeding from one point to another in time or space without deviation or interruption: "a direct route"; "the shortest path"
uninterrupted, through
adj. (of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes; "a through street"; "a through bus"; "through traffic"
erectile
adj. capable of being raised to an upright position; "erectile feathers"
passant
adj. in walking position with right foreleg raised
rearing, rampant
adj. rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile; "a lion rampant"
rigid
adj. designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
salient
adj. represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
standing
adj. having a supporting base; "a standing lamp"
statant
adj. standing on four feet
straight-backed
adj. of posture; "a slim straight-backed dancer"
Antonyms (60)
curly
adj. (of hair) having curls or waves; "they envied her naturally curly hair"
nappy, crisp, kinky, frizzly, frizzy
adj. of hair in small tight curls
wavy
adj. of hair in waves; "she had long wavy hair"
crooked
adj. having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
awry, wonky, askew, cockeyed, lopsided
adj. turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
bent
adj. altered from an originally straight condition; "a bent wire"
winding, twisting, tortuous, twisty
adj. marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"
oblique, crabwise, sideways
adj. (of movement) at an angle
curved, curving
adj. having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard"
wavy, sinuate, sinuous
adj. curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines"
corrupt, crooked
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable
adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
dishonest, unscrupulous
adj. lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable
untidy, cluttered, littered, messy, mussy
adj. (disorderly)
slick, cunning, crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
oblique, crabwise, sideways
adj. (of movement) at an angle
uneven
adj. not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"
irregular
adj. of a surface; not level or flat; "walking was difficult on the irregular cobblestoned surface"
uneven
adj. not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"
campylotropous, curved
adj. (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk
coiled
adj. curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals); "a coiled snake ready to strike"; "the rope lay coiled on the deck"
indirectly, obliquely
adv. not in a forthright manner; "he answered very indirectly"
straight
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