definition of the word straight

Middle English streght (Anglo Saxon streht), the past participle of Middle English strechen (Anglo-Saxon streccan), to stretch.

• SAMPA: /streIt/
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• Rhymes: -eɪt

• strait

• streight (obsolete)

straight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)

1. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.

   a straight line.

2. Strictly along political lines.

   He always votes a straight ticket.

3. Direct, truthful, frank.

   a straight answer.

4. As it should be.

   Everything is straight now.

5. Undiluted.

   straight whiskey.

6. Having all cylinders in a single row. (referring to an internal combustion engine)

   a straight six.

7. slang: conventional.
8. slang: heterosexual.
9. slang: boring, unappealing, bad or of low quality.
10. (cricket) On, or near a line running between the two wickets.

• curved

• Straight is sometimes humorously used as meaning low quality by homosexuals and bisexuals, rather than gay.

• straighten
• straightly
• straightness

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