straightness

straight  (strt)

adj. straight·er, straight·est

1. Extending continuously in the same direction without curving: a straight line.

2. Having no waves or bends: straight hair.

3.

a. Not bent or bowed; rigid or erect: a straight, strong back.

b. 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.

5.

a. Direct and candid: a straight answer.

b. Following a direct or correct method or approach; systematic: straight reasoning.

c. Coming from a reliable source; factual: a straight tip; straight information.

6.

a. Showing or marked by honesty or fair-mindedness: straight business dealings.

b. Right; correct: made sure the facts were straight in the report.

7. Neatly arranged; orderly: The room is straight again.

8.

a. Uninterrupted; consecutive: sick for five straight days; their fourth straight victory.

b. Having the parts or details in correct sequence.

c. 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.

10.

a. Not deviating from what is considered socially normal, usual, or acceptable; conventional.

b. Conventional to an extreme degree.

11. Heterosexual.

12. Slang Not being under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

13.

a. Not deviating from the normal or strict form: straight Freudian analysis.

b. Not altered, embellished, or modified: does straight comedy.

14.

a. Concerned with serious or important matters: a straight drama without comedy or music.

b. 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.

adv.

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.

n.

1.

a. The straight part, as of a road: "The car darted forward on to the straight" (Kingsley Amis).

b. 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.

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[Middle English, from past participle of strecchen, to stretch; see stretch.]

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straightly adv.

straightness n.

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Straightness 

See Also: POSTURE

1. Direct, like a guided torpedo —William Humphrey
2. Erect as compass in its curve —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
3. Even as a row of West Point cadets on parade —Arthur Baer
4. Even as a set of false teeth —Arthur Baer
5. (Noses … ) even as buttons on a tape —Beryl Markham
6. Straight as a column —Louis Adamic
7. Straight as a gun barrel (she carried her lengthy shadow up and down the golden sand) —Jean Stafford
8. (Walks) straight as a hoe —T. Coraghessan Boyle
9. (A woman) straight as a hunting knife —Stephen Vincent Benet
10. Straight as a line —Geoffrey Chaucer

    This is transcribed from Chaucer’s Old English: “Streight as any lyne.” An American folk variant said to originate in Maine is the much-used “Straight as a ramrod.”

11. Straight as an arrow —Aphra Behn

    A simile much in use, both to describe physical and moral erectness. To emphasize the latter meaning there’s “Straight as your sister” attributed to Jerome Barry.

12. (Teeth … ) straight as a picket fence —Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
13. Straight as a plumb line —Mike Sommer
14. Straight as a stick and looked as brittle —V. S. Pritchett
15. (I felt her to be) straight as a die —Colette
16. Straight as a fir tree —Henry Van Dyke
17. (The country road is wide, light gray,) straight as a ruler —Cora Sandel
18. [Lower eyelids] straight as ruler edges —Dashiell Hammett
19. Straight as the backbone of a herring —John Ray’s Proverbs
20. Straight like a pine —Joseph Conrad
21. Straight … like long rows of soldiers —Oscar Wilde
22. Straight, thin as a pencil —Miller Williams

    This marks the opening of a poem entitled The Writer.

    See Also: THINNESS

23. (His two rifles as) upright as umbrellas —Edward Hoagland

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	straightness - (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl curvature, curve - the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface curliness, waviness - (of hair) a tendency to curl
	2.	straightness - freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles shape, configuration, conformation, contour, form - any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes" crookedness - having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
	3.	straightness - trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim" directness characteristic - a distinguishing quality downrightness, straightforwardness - the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness" immediacy, immediateness - lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" pointedness - the quality of being obviously directed at a particular person or thing; "the pointedness of his sarcasm was unmistakable"
	4.	straightness - having honest intentions; "he acted in good faith"; "doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants" good faith honestness, honesty - the quality of being honest
	5.	straightness - a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex heterosexualism, heterosexuality sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"

Translations

straightness [ˈstreɪtnɪs] N

1. (lit) [of road, arm leg] → lo recto; [of hair] → lo liso; [of back] → lo recto, lo erguido

2. (fig) (= honesty) → honestidad f; (= frankness) → franqueza f