straight
Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
Adjective 4 meanings
Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
Direct, undeviating.
Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
Adverb 4 meanings
Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
“The door will be straight ahead of you.”
Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
“On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.”
Continuously; without interruption or pause.
“He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.”
Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
Noun 4 meanings
Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
Five cards in sequence.
A heterosexual.
“My friends call straights "heteros".”
A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
Verb 1 meaning
To straighten.
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”).
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STRAIGHT at a glance
STRAIGHT has 8 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (S 1 + T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + I 1 + G 2 + H 4 + T 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #941 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with straight
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- STREIGHT12
- STRAICHT13
- STRAUGHT12
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