Directly: alternatives and connections

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

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Immediately; without delay; directly.

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In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.

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Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.

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At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.

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A variant of Strait, a.

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In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly.

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly.

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.