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STRAIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does straight mean?
• STRAIGHT (noun)
The noun STRAIGHT has 3 senses:
1. a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
2. a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
3. a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
Familiarity information: STRAIGHT used as a noun is uncommon.
• STRAIGHT (adjective)
The adjective STRAIGHT has 15 senses:
1. successive (without a break)
2. having no deviations
3. (of hair) having no waves or curls
4. erect in posture
5. in keeping with the facts
6. characterized by honesty and fairness
7. no longer coiled
8. free from curves or angles
9. neatly arranged; not disorderly
10. not homosexual
11. accurately fitted; level
12. without evasion or compromise
13. (of an alcoholic drink) without water
14. following a correct or logical method
15. rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Familiarity information: STRAIGHT used as an adjective is familiar.
• STRAIGHT (adverb)
The adverb STRAIGHT has 3 senses:
1. without deviation
2. in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
3. in a straight line; in a direct course
Familiarity information: STRAIGHT used as an adverb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
heterosexual; heterosexual person; straight; straight person
Hypernyms ("straight" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
straight (not homosexual)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("straight" is a kind of...):
poker hand (the 5 cards held in a game of poker)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
straight; straightaway
Hypernyms ("straight" is a kind of...):
section; segment (one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "straight"):
stretch (a straightaway section of a racetrack)
Derivation:
straight (free from curves or angles)
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: straightest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Successive (without a break)
Synonyms:
consecutive; straight
Context example:
sick for five straight days
Similar:
continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no deviations
Context example:
straight shoulders
Similar:
aligned (in a straight line)
unbent (not bent)
untwisted (not twisted; formerly twisted but now straight)
Also:
direct (direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short)
perpendicular; vertical (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line)
Attribute:
configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))
Antonym:
crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)
Derivation:
straightness (freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of hair) having no waves or curls
Context example:
her naturally straight hair hung long and silky
Similar:
uncurled (not having been curled)
unpermed (not having had a permanent wave)
Attribute:
curliness; waviness ((of hair) a tendency to curl)
Antonym:
curly ((of hair) having curls or waves)
Derivation:
straightness ((of hair) lack of a tendency to curl)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Erect in posture
Synonyms:
Context example:
stood defiantly with unbowed back
Similar:
erect; upright; vertical (upright in position or posture)
Sense 5
Meaning:
In keeping with the facts
Context example:
made sure the facts were straight in the report
Similar:
accurate (conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Characterized by honesty and fairness
Synonyms:
square; straight
Context example:
a square deal
Similar:
aboveboard; straightforward (without concealment or deception; honest)
guileless; transparent (free of deceit)
straightarrow (conventionally moral and upright)
Also:
honest; honorable (not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent)
lawful (conformable to or allowed by law)
Attribute:
honestness; honesty (the quality of being honest)
Antonym:
crooked (not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive)
Derivation:
straightness (having honest intentions)
Sense 7
Meaning:
No longer coiled
Synonyms:
straight; uncoiled
Similar:
uncurled (not curled)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Free from curves or angles
Context example:
a straight line
Similar:
trabeate; trabeated (not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches))
uncurved; uncurving (having no curves)
Antonym:
curved (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)
Derivation:
straight (a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse)
straightness (freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Neatly arranged; not disorderly
Context example:
the room is straight now
Similar:
tidy (marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Not homosexual
Similar:
heterosexual (sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
straight (a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex)
straightness (a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Accurately fitted; level
Synonyms:
straight; true
Context example:
the window frame isn't quite true
Similar:
even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))
Sense 12
Meaning:
Without evasion or compromise
Synonyms:
square; straight; straightforward
Context example:
he is not being as straightforward as it appears
Similar:
direct (straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action)
Derivation:
straightness (having honest intentions)
Sense 13
Meaning:
(of an alcoholic drink) without water
Synonyms:
full-strength; neat; straight
Context example:
took his whiskey neat
Similar:
undiluted (not diluted)
Sense 14
Meaning:
Following a correct or logical method
Context example:
straight reasoning
Similar:
correct; right (free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth)
Derivation:
straightness (trueness of course toward a goal)
Sense 15
Meaning:
Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Synonyms:
square; straight
Similar:
conventional (unimaginative and conformist)
Domain usage:
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without deviation
Synonyms:
Context example:
went direct to the office
Pertainym:
straight (having no deviations)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
Synonyms:
Context example:
came out flat for less work and more pay
Sense 3
Meaning:
In a straight line; in a direct course
Context example:
the road runs straight
Context examples
I did all I could to help him to keep things straight.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Is my nose knocked a little out of the straight?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I don't care whether you're straight with me or not.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You have so many standout days, you will need to have flashcards to keep them all straight.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“I didn’t know what to do, so I came straight to you.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"My talk is straight," Negore said. "The way is clear."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Again the rope was attached and he was launched, and again he struck out, but this time straight into the stream.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He has a curious habit of looking one straight in the face, as if trying to read one's thoughts.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She drew herself up, and sat looking straight before her, far away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“There lies Japan,” I remarked, “straight before us.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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