Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
in a forward direction:
directly; without pause, delay or detour:
Русский
By meaning 1
in a forward direction:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
in a forward direction:
directly; without pause, delay or detour:

Examples

1143 sentences
  1. Keep going straight.

    Продовжуйте рухатись прямо. — Anjy

    ruИдите вперёд. — marafon

    deGeh weiter geradeaus. — Hans_Adler

  2. Tom is clearly not thinking straight.

  3. We need set the record straight.

Meaning

4 senses
  1. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.

    The door will be straight ahead of you.

    Go straight back.

    geradeaus

    пря́моprjámo

    пря́моprjámo, про́стоprósto

    in a straight line; in a direct course

  2. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.

    On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.

    stracks

    безпосере́дньоbezposerédnʹo

  3. Continuously; without interruption or pause.

    He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.

  4. Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.

Origin

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stre

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.

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Forms

more straight, most straight
Comparativemore straight Lesson
Superlativemost straight

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • straight A student
  • go straight
  • went straight home
  • straight home
  • straight home after
  • went straight to
  • the record straight
  • a straight face
  • got straight a's
  • come straight home
  • record straight
  • keep a straight

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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