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Definition: STRAIGHTLY |
STRAIGHTLYAdverb1. A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight. 2. In a right line; not crookedly. |
Date "STRAIGHTLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "STRAIGHTLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 直 (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 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STRAIGHTLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stroitel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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