straight
/stɹeɪt/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb, proper noun
Also a form of stretch
Forms straighter straightest straights straighting straighted streight
- adjective Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- adjective (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
- adjective Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- adjective (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- adjective (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
- adjective Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
- adjective Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- adjective Serious rather than comedic.
- adverb Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line. “The door will be straight ahead of you.”
- adverb Directly; without pause, delay or detour. “On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.”
- adverb Continuously; without interruption or pause. “He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.”
- adverb Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
- noun Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- noun (poker) Five cards in sequence.
- noun (colloquial) A heterosexual. “My friends call straights "heteros".”
- noun (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- noun (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- noun A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- noun A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
- verb (transitive) To straighten.
Synonyms
hetero straightedge breeder basic bitch bourgeois L7 mainstreamer mainstreamist muggle mundane normal normalfag normaloid normie square straighter heterosexual heterosexual person straight person straightaway consecutive unbent unbowed uncoiled true straightforward neat full-strength directly direct
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Cognate with Scots straicht (“straight”), Dutch gestrekt (“stretched”), German gestreckt (“stretched”), Danish strakt (“stretched”), Faroese and Norn strekti (“stretched”), Icelandic strekkti (“stretched”), Norwegian strekte (“stretched”), Swedish sträckte (“stretched”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed.
In some senses, conflated with strait (“narrow, constricted”), which is from Latin strictus via Old French estreit.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective A variant of Strait, a. [Obs. or R.]
- adjective 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.
- adjective 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.
- adverb In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark. "Floating straight." Shak.
Etymology [OE. strei, properly p.p. of strecchen to stretch, AS. streht, p.p. of streccan to stretch, to extend. See Stretch.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “straight”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details