straight

CEFRA2

/stɹeɪt/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Not bent or curved; extending in one direction.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Direct, undeviating.

Examples

  • Go straight ahead until you reach the church.

  • You cannot make a crab walk straight.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /stɹaɪt/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.

  2. Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.

  3. Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.

More examples

In context

  • Keep straight on for two miles.

  • After four straight wins, Mudchester United are top of the league.

  • Mr. Coniff: He did not have his hat on straight; that is the one thing, is it?

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Cognate with Scots straicht (“straight”), Dutch gestrekt (“stretched”), German gestreckt (“stretched”), Danish strakt (“stretched”), Faroese and Norn strekti (“stretched”), Icelandic strekkti (“stretched”), Norwegian strekte (“stretched”), Swedish sträckte (“stretched”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed. In some senses, conflated with strait (“narrow, constricted”), which is from Latin strictus via Old French estreit.