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Adjective straight has 16 senses
- straight, consecutive - successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"
Antonyms: discontinuous, noncontinuous (indirect, via continuous)
- straight - having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
Antonyms: crooked, akimbo, anfractuous, aquiline, hooked, askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff, bending, bent, distorted, twisted, contorted, writhed, writhen, deflective, refractive, gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed, malposed, reflexed, squiggly, warped, windblown, wry, zigzag, geniculate, tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding
- straight - (of hair) having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky"
Antonyms: curly, crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy, curled, curling, permed, ringleted, wavy
- straight, unbent, unbowed, upright - erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
Antonym: unerect (indirect, via erect)
- straight - right; in keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report"
Antonym: inaccurate (indirect, via accurate)
- straight - honest and morally upright; "I just want a straight answer to the question"; "straight dealing"
Antonyms: crooked, corrupt, dishonest, unscrupulous, sneaky, underhand, underhanded
- uncoiled, straight - no longer coiled
- straight - without curves
Antonyms: curved, curving, arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed, curvilineal, curvilinear, falcate, falciform, sickle-shaped, flexuous, hooklike, incurvate, incurved, recurved, recurvate, semicircular, serpentine, snaky, snakelike, sinuate, sinuous, wiggly, sinusoidal, eellike, curvy, curvey, upcurved
- straight - neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now"
Antonym: untidy (indirect, via tidy)
- square, straight - characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing"
Antonyms: dishonest, dishonorable (indirect, via honest)
- straight - not homosexual
Antonym: homosexual (indirect, via bisexual, heterosexual)
Antonym: bisexual (indirect, via heterosexual, homosexual)
- true, straight - accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
Antonym: uneven (indirect, via even)
- neat, straight, full-strength - without water; "took his whiskey neat"
Antonyms: diluted, dilute (indirect, via undiluted)
- straight - reliable in matters of fact; "he was always straight with me"
Antonyms: unreliable, undependable (indirect, via reliable, dependable)
Antonyms: unreliable, undependable (indirect, via reliable, dependable)
- straight - following a correct or logical method; "straight reasoning"
Antonyms: incorrect, wrong (indirect, via correct, right)
Antonyms: incorrect, wrong (indirect, via correct, right)
- square, straight - rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Antonym: unconventional (indirect, via conventional)
Adverbial straight has 3 senses
- directly, straight, direct - without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
Derived from adjective straight2
- directly, flat, straight - in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay"
- straight - in a straight line; in a direct course; "the road runs straight"
Noun straight has 3 senses
- heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight - a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
--1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--1 has particulars: fucker
- straight - a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
--2 is a kind of poker hand
- straightaway, straight - a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
--3 is a kind of section, segment
--3 has particulars: stretch
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