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ADJECTIVE:
straight·er, straight·est
  1. Extending continuously in the same direction without curving: a straight line.
  2. Having no waves or bends: straight hair.
    1. Not bent or bowed; rigid or erect: a straight, strong back.
    2. Sports Of or relating to a midair position in diving or gymnastics in which the body is held rigid without bending at the hips or knees.
  4. Perfectly horizontal or vertical; level or even: The mirror isn't straight.
    1. Direct and candid: a straight answer.
    2. Following a direct or correct method or approach; systematic: straight reasoning.
    3. Coming from a reliable source; factual: a straight tip; straight information.
    1. Showing or marked by honesty or fair-mindedness: straight business dealings.
    2. Right; correct: made sure the facts were straight in the report.
  7. Neatly arranged; orderly: The room is straight again.
    1. Uninterrupted; consecutive: sick for five straight days; their fourth straight victory.
    2. Having the parts or details in correct sequence.
    3. Games Constituting a straight in poker.
  9. Characterized by undeviating support, as of a principle or a political party: always votes a straight party line; a straight Democrat.
    1. Not deviating from what is considered socially normal, usual, or acceptable; conventional.
    2. Conventional to an extreme degree.
  11. Heterosexual.
  12. Slang Not being under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
    1. Not deviating from the normal or strict form: straight Freudian analysis.
    2. Not altered, embellished, or modified: does straight comedy.
    1. Concerned with serious or important matters: a straight drama without comedy or music.
    2. Of or relating to a straight man.
  15. Not mixed with anything else; undiluted: straight bourbon.
  16. Sold without discount regardless of the amount purchased.
ADVERB:
  1. In a straight line; directly.
  2. In an erect posture; upright.
  3. Sports In the straight position, as in diving.
  4. Without detour or delay: went straight home.
  5. Without circumlocution; candidly: I'll say it to you straight: you're wrong.
  6. In a neat and orderly condition: put the living room straight.
  7. In an honest, law-abiding, or virtuous manner: lives straight.
  8. Without stopping; continuously: walked six hours straight.
  9. Without embellishment or modification: tell the joke straight.
  10. Without ice, water, or a mixer: drink whiskey straight.
NOUN:
    1. The straight part, as of a road: "The car darted forward on to the straight" (Kingsley Amis).
    2. The straight part of a racecourse between the winning post and the last turn.
  2. A straight line.
  3. A straight form or position.
  4. Games A poker hand containing five cards of various suits in numerical sequence, ranked above three of a kind and below a flush.
  5. A conventional person, especially one considered a member of established society.
  6. A heterosexual person.

IDIOM:
straight up
Served without ice: whiskey straight up.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from past participle of strecchen, to stretch ; see stretch

OTHER FORMS:
straightly(Adverb), straightness(Noun)


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