noun
1. (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl
• Ant: ↑curliness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑straight
2. freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles
• Ant: ↑crookedness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑straight
• Hypernyms: ↑shape, ↑form, ↑configuration, ↑contour, ↑conformation
3. a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex
• Syn: ↑heterosexuality, ↑heterosexualism
• Derivationally related forms: ↑straight, ↑heterosexual (for: ↑heterosexuality)
• Hypernyms: ↑sexual activity, ↑sexual practice, ↑sex, ↑sex activity
4. having honest intentions
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he acted in good faith
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doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants
• Syn: ↑good faith
• Derivationally related forms: ↑straight
• Hypernyms: ↑honesty, ↑honestness
5. trueness of course toward a goal
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rivaling a hawk in directness of aim
• Syn: ↑directness
• Ant: ↑indirectness (for: ↑directness)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑straight, ↑direct (for: ↑directness)
• Hypernyms: ↑characteristic
• Hyponyms: ↑downrightness, ↑straightforwardness, ↑immediacy, ↑immediateness, ↑pointedness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.