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Synonyms of the word 
STRAIGHT → ABOVEBOARD - ACCURATE - ALIGNED - CONSECUTIVE - CONTINUOUS - CONVENTIONAL - CORRECT - DIRECT - DIRECTLY - ERECT - EVEN - FLAT - GUILELESS - HETEROSEXUAL - HONEST - HONORABLE - INDIVIDUAL - LAWFUL - MORTAL - NEAT - PERPENDICULAR - PERSON - RIGHT - SECTION - SEGMENT - SOMEBODY - SOMEONE - SOUL - SQUARE - STRAIGHTAWAY - STRAIGHTFORWARD - TIDY - TRABEATE - TRABEATED - TRANSPARENT - TRUE - UNBENT - UNBOWED - UNCOILED - UNCURLED - UNCURVED - UNDILUTED - UNINTERRUPTED - UNPERMED - UNTWISTED - UPRIGHT - VERTICALstraight- adj. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- adj. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
- adj. Figurative uses.
- adj. Colloquial uses.
- adj. (sciences, mathematics) concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course…
- adv. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
- adv. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- adv. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- n. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- n. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
- n. (colloquial) A heterosexual.
- n. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- n. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. Also straighter.
- v. (transitive) To straighten.
aboveboard- adj. Alternative form of above-board.
accurate- adj. In exact or careful conformity to truth; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; which gives truthful…
- adj. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
- adj. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
aligned- v. simple past tense and past participle of align.
- adj. Having been placed, arranged or formed in alignment (with something).
- adj. (figuratively) Allied or working together with a common goal.
consecutive- adj. following, in succession, without interruption.
- adj. Having some logical sequence.
- n. (music, countable) A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same…
- n. (linguistics, countable) A linguistic form that implies or describes an event that follows temporally…
- n. (uncountable and countable) Consecutive interpretation.
continuous- adj. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
- adj. Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
- adj. (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- adj. (analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x),…
- adj. (mathematics, more generally, of a function) Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage.
- adj. (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
conventional- adj. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
- adj. Ordinary, commonplace.
- adj. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
- n. (finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or…
correct- adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
- adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
- v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
- v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
- v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.
direct- adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
- adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
- adj. Straightforward; sincere.
- adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
- adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
- adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
- adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
- adv. Directly.
- v. To manage, control, steer.
- v. To aim (something) at (something else).
- v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
- v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
- v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…
directly- adv. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
- adv. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct means.
- adv. Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
- adv. Exactly; just.
- adv. Straightforwardly; honestly.
- adv. (dated) Immediately.
- adv. (Midland South) Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.
- conj. As soon as.
erect- adj. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- adj. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
- adj. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
- adj. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
- adj. Watchful; alert.
- adj. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
- v. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- v. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
- v. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
- v. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- v. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- v. (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- v. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- v. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
even- adj. Flat and level.
- adj. Without great variation.
- adj. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
- adj. (not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two.
- adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
- adj. (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
- adj. parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
- adj. (obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
- adj. (obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
- v. (transitive) To make flat and level.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To equal.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with.
- adv. (archaic) Exactly, just, fully.
- adv. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
- adv. Emphasizing a comparative.
- adv. (ironic) Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance. Rather.
- n. (mathematics, diminutive) An even number.
- n. (archaic or poetic) Evening.
flat- adj. Having no variations in height.
- adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
- adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or…
- adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
- adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- adj. Uninteresting.
- adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the…
- adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- adj. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull.
- adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
- adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective…
- adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- adv. So as to be flat.
- adv. Bluntly.
- adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
- adv. Completely.
- adv. Directly; flatly.
- adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
- n. An area of level ground.
- n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter…
- n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
- n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
- n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
- n. The flat part of something.
- n. A wide, shallow container.
- n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded…
- n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- n. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a…
- n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
- n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts…
- v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
- v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
- v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
- n. (chiefly Britain, New England, New Zealand and Australia, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on…
guileless- adj. Free from guile; honest but naïve.
heterosexual- adj. Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.
- n. A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.
honest- adj. (of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying,…
- adj. (of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
- adj. In good faith; without malice.
- adj. (of a measurement device) Accurate.
- adj. Authentic; full.
- adj. Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
- adj. Open; frank.
- adj. (obsolete) Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
- adj. (obsolete) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
- v. (obsolete) To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.
- adv. (colloquial) Honestly; really.
honorable- adj. (US) Worthy of respect; respectable.
- adj. (Commonwealth of Nations, politics) Misspelling of honourable.
individual- n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
- n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
- n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
- n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
- adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
- adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
lawful- adj. Conforming to, or recognised by law or rules.
mortal- adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
- adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
- adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
- adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
- adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
- n. A human; someone susceptible to death.
neat- n. (archaic) A bull or cow.
- n. (archaic) Cattle collectively.
- adj. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
- adj. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
- adj. (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
- adj. (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
- adj. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
- adj. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
- adj. (colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable.
- n. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear…
perpendicular- adj. (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to).
- n. (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
- n. A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
person- n. An individual; usually a human being.
- n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
- n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
- n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
- n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
- n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
- v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.
right- adj. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
- adj. Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two…
- adj. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
- adj. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
- adj. Healthy, sane, competent.
- adj. Real; veritable.
- adj. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
- adj. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
- adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points…
- adj. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
- adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
- adv. On the right side.
- adv. Towards the right side.
- interj. Yes, that is correct; I agree.
- interj. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
- interj. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
- interj. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
- interj. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
- n. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
- n. A legal or moral entitlement.
- n. The right side or direction.
- n. The right hand.
- n. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
- n. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- v. To correct.
- v. To set upright.
- v. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
- v. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
- adv. Exactly, precisely.
- adv. Immediately, directly.
- adv. (Britain, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
- adv. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
- adv. In a correct manner.
- adv. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
section- n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- n. A part of a document.
- n. An act or instance of cutting.
- n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- n. (category theory) A right inverse.
- n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
- n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
- v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
segment- n. A length of some object.
- n. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section;…
- n. (mathematics) A portion.
- n. (sciences) A portion.
- n. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- n. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
- n. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular…
- n. (travel) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked…
- v. To divide into segments or sections.
somebody- pron. Some unspecified person.
- n. A recognised person, a celebrity.
someone- pron. Some person.
- n. A partially specified but unnamed person.
soul- n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
- n. The spirit or essence of anything.
- n. Life, energy, vigor.
- n. (music) Soul music.
- n. A person, especially as one among many.
- n. An individual life.
- n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
- v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
square- n. (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle;…
- n. (metonymically) Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
- n. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- n. An open space normally in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees,…
- n. (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number,…
- n. (military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- n. (1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in…
- n. (Britain) The symbol on a telephone; hash.
- n. (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at…
- n. (real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square…
- n. (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
- n. (academia) A mortarboard.
- n. (colloquial, US) A square meal.
- n. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
- n. The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- n. (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- n. (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
- n. (slang) Cigarette.
- n. (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
- adj. Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- adj. Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to…
- adj. Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.
- adj. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- adj. Honest; straightforward.
- adj. Fair.
- adj. Even; tied.
- adj. (slang) Socially conventional; boring.
- adj. (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- adj. Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
- adj. hearty; vigorous.
- adj. Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- v. (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular.
- v. To resolve or reconcile.
- v. To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- v. (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second…
- v. (transitive) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- v. (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch.
- v. (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
- v. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
- v. (obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
- v. To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- v. To form with four sides and four right angles.
- v. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- v. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- v. (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
straightaway- n. A straight section of a racetrack.
- adv. At once; immediately.
- adj. extending into the distance in a straight line.
straightforward- adj. Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
- adj. easy, simple, without difficulty.
- adv. In a straightforward manner.
tidy- adj. (obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
- adj. (obsolete) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
- adj. Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
- adj. Arranged neatly and in order.
- adj. Not messy; neat and controlled.
- adj. Satisfactory; comfortable.
- adj. (informal) Generous, considerable.
- v. To make tidy; to neaten.
- n. A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
- n. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of…
- n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
- n. The wren.
- interj. (Wales) Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.
trabeate- adj. (architecture) Synonym of trabeated.
trabeated- adj. (architecture) Furnished with an entablature.
transparent- adj. (of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost…
- adj. (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly…
- adj. Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
- adj. (signal processing) Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed…
true- adj. (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- adj. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- adj. (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- adj. Loyal, faithful.
- adj. Genuine.
- adj. Legitimate.
- adj. (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- adj. (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- adv. (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
- n. Truth.
- n. The state of being in alignment.
- v. To straighten.
- v. To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
unbent- v. simple past tense and past participle of unbend.
- adj. Not bent.
- adj. Erect, upright, or straight.
unbowed- adj. Not bowed; erect or upright.
- adj. Not subdued or deterred.
uncoiled- v. simple past tense and past participle of uncoil.
- adj. Not coiled.
uncurled- v. simple past tense and past participle of uncurl.
uncurvedundiluted- adj. Not diluted or mixed with other substances.
- adj. Unadulterated; free from extraneous elements.
uninterrupted- adj. continuing with no interruption.
unpermeduntwisted- v. simple past tense and past participle of untwist.
upright- adj. Vertical; erect.
- adj. Greater in height than breadth.
- adj. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
- adj. (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
- adv. in or into an upright position.
- n. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
- n. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic…
- n. (informal) An upright piano.
- n. Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
- v. (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
vertical- adj. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular…
- adj. In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular,…
- adj. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
- adj. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
- n. A vertex or zenith.
- n. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
- n. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
- n. A vertical component of a structure.
- n. (marketing) A vertical market.
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