Meaning

9 senses
  1. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.

    direkt, unmittelbar

    прямо́йprjamój, непосре́дственныйneposrédstvennyj, постоя́нныйpostojánnyj

    прями́йprjamýj, безпосере́днійbezposerédnij

    direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short

  2. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.

    the most direct route between two buildings

  3. Straightforward; sincere.

  4. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

    being an immediate result or consequence

  5. In the line of descent; not collateral.

    a descendant in the direct line

    in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

  6. In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.

    moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

  7. Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.

    direct nomination; direct legislation

  8. Having a single flight number.

  9. Not employing the law of the excluded middle or argument by contradiction.

Examples

408 sentences
  1. Your questions were too direct.

    Твої питання були занадто прямі.

    ruТвои вопросы были слишком прямолинейны.

    deDeine Fragen waren zu direkt.

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  2. Is it a direct flight?

    Це прямий рейс?

    ruЭто прямой рейс?

    deIst es ein Direktflug?

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  3. Tom is often too direct.

    Том часто занадто прямолінійний.

    ruТом часто слишком прямолинеен.

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  4. Tom is direct.

    Том прямолінійний.

    ruТом прямолинеен.

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  5. He is very direct about it.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
straight, constant, without interruption:
Русский
By meaning 1
straight, constant, without interruption:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
straight, constant, without interruption:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin dīrēctus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”),

Borrowed from Latin dīrēctus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + regō (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress. Doublet of derecho.

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Forms

more direct, most direct
Comparativemore direct Lesson
Superlativemost direct Lesson

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
proceeding uninterrupted:immediateB1
express, plain, unambiguous:explicit
Close in meaning
  • lacking compromising or mitigating elements:exact
  • having no intervening persons, agents, conditions:unmediated
  • in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker:verbatim
  • in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child:lineal

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

61 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • a direct order
  • direct order
  • direct flight

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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