1. Having no deviations
   "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"
    
2. Successive (without a break)
   "sick for five straight days";
   - consecutive
    
3. Free from curves or angles
   "a straight line"
    
4. In keeping with the facts
   "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report"
    
5. Characterized by honesty and fairness
   "straight dealing";
   - square
    
6. Neatly arranged; not disorderly
   "the room is straight now"
    
7. (of hair) having no waves or curls
   "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky"
    
8. Erect in posture
   "sit straight";
   - unbent, unbowed
    
9. Accurately fitted; level
   "the window frame isn't quite straight";
   - true
    
10. Without evasion or compromise
    "a straight contradiction";
    - square, straightforward
     
11. Following a correct or logical method
    "straight reasoning"
     
12. Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
    "Her straight-laced upbringing left her uncomfortable in casual social situations";
    - square
     
13. (of an alcoholic drink) without water
    "took his whiskey straight";
    - neat, full-strength
     
14. Not homosexual
    "He identified as straight"; "She had only dated straight men in the past"
     
15. No longer coiled
    "The snake lay straight on the forest floor";
    - uncoiled

1. Without deviation
   "the path leads straight to the lake";
   - directly, direct
    
2. In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
   "told me straight out";
   - directly, flat
    
3. In a straight line; in a direct course
   "the road runs straight"

1. A straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
   "The car accelerated rapidly on the straight";
   - straightaway
    
2. A person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
   "The survey included questions about the experiences of straights in the workplace";
   - heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, hetero [informal], het [slang]
    
3. A poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
   "She revealed a straight from 7 to Jack"

Sounds like: storeys, straight

Derived forms: straightest, straighter, straights

See also: aboveboard, accurate, aligned, configuration, conformation, continuous, contour, conventional, correct, curliness, direct, erect, even, form, guileless, het [slang], heterosexual, honest, honestness, honesty, honorable [US], honourable [Brit, Cdn], lawful, mainstream, perpendicular, right, shape, straight-arrow [N. Amer, informal], straightforward, tidy, trabeate, trabeated, transparent, unbent, uncurled, uncurved, uncurving, undiluted, uninterrupted, unpermed, untwisted, upright, vertical, waviness

Type of: individual, mortal, person, poker hand, section, segment, somebody, someone, soul

Antonym: coiled, crooked, curly, curved

Encyclopedia: Straight, No Chaser