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STRAIGHTLY

Definition: STRAIGHTLY

STRAIGHTLY

Adverb

1. A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

2. In a right line; not crookedly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STRAIGHTLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)


Modern Translation: STRAIGHTLY

Language Translations for "STRAIGHTLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(directly, frank, straight, upright, vertical), 平直地. (various references)

   

German

  

gerade (direct, directly, erect, erectly, especially, even, exactly, honest, jab, just, just as, just now, now, okay, right, straigh ahead, straight, straight away, straight line, stretch, unbowed, undeviating, upright, upstanding), direkt (blunt, bluntly, clear, direct, directly, due, forthright, immediate, immediately, immediatly, lineal, live, one-level, outspoken, outspokenly, perfect, plain, plainly, plump, randomly, really, right, sheer, slap, squarely, straigh ahead, straight, unbroken, undeviating). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

똑"르게 (straightforwardly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aightlystray

   

Romanian

  

direct (bluff, bluntly, candidly, categorical, direct, directly, due, fair, first hand, flat, formal, frankly, full, immediate, official, open, openly, outright, plump, straight, straightforward, straightforwardly, straightway, through). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

прямо (avowedly, bang, direct, directly, endlong, endways, endwise, erect, foursquare, head-on, in plain English, just, on the level, outright, plainly, plump, point blank, slap, spang, squarely, straight, straight from the shoulder, straight out, up and down, uprightly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: STRAIGHTLY

Misspellings

"STRAIGHTLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stroitel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: STRAIGHTLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-l-r-s-t-t-y"

-1 letter: starlight.

-2 letters: garishly, straight, straitly, trashily.

-3 letters: alights, alright, athirst, ghastly, grayish, gristly, hastily, largish, rattish, rightly, sightly, stagily, starlit, tartish, tastily, thirsty, thistly, tightly, trysail, yttrias.

-4 letters: airths, alight, argils, aright, artily, artist, garish, garths, gaslit, girths, glairs, glairy, grails, gratis, grisly, griths, gritty, laighs, lathis, latish, lights, lyrist, lyttas, rashly, rattly, rights.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-l-r-s-t-t-y"
 

+2 letters: distraughtly, shatteringly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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