| overnight | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, nightlong |
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| (adverb) during or for the length of one night | - |
| (adverb) happening in a short time or with great speed | - |
| overnighter | (noun) a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight | Synonyms: overnight bag, overnight case |
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| (noun) a guest who stays overnight | - |
| oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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| (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
| overweight | (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, heavy |
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| (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
| overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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| paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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| penlight | (noun) a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen | - |
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| pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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| phenolphthalein | (noun) a laxative used in many preparations under various trade names; also used as an acid-base indicator in titrations involving weak acids and strong bases because it is brilliant red at high alkalinity and colorless below pH 8 | - |
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| phthisis | (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: consumption, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| plight | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: troth |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: predicament, quandary |
| (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: pledge |
| (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, engage |
| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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| prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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| (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
| prizefighter | (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: gladiator |
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| quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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| resorcinolphthalein | (noun) a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed) | Synonyms: fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye |
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| right | (adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north | - |
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| (adjective) in conformance with justice or law or morality | - |
| (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) of or belonging to the political or intellectual right | - |
| (adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) precisely accurate | Synonyms: veracious |
| (adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: proper |
| (adjective) (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier | Synonyms: one |
| (adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: good, ripe |
| (adjective) (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward | - |
| (adjective) having the axis perpendicular to the base | - |
| (adjective) intended for the right hand | Synonyms: right-hand |
| (adjective) in or into a satisfactory condition | - |
| (adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: correct |
| (noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east | - |
| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right field, rightfield |
| (noun) an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature | - |
| (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: rightfulness |
| (noun) the hand that is on the right side of the body | Synonyms: right hand |
| (noun) those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged | Synonyms: right wing |
| (noun) location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east | - |
| (noun) (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing | - |
| (adverb) an interjection expressing agreement; Yes, you are indeed correct | Synonyms: right on |
| (adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, decently, properly |
| (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: aright, correctly |
| (adverb) toward or on the right; also used figuratively | - |
| (adverb) precisely, exactly | - |
| (adverb) in accordance with moral or social standards | Synonyms: justly |
| (adverb) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | Synonyms: mightily, mighty, powerful |
| (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, entirely, totally, whole, wholly |
| (adverb) immediately | - |
| (adverb) completely | Synonyms: flop |
| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, rectify |
| (verb) regain an upright or proper position | - |
| (verb) put in or restore to an upright position | - |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, redress |
| righteous | (adjective) characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice | - |
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| (adjective) morally justified | - |
| righteously | (adverb) in a righteous manner | - |
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| righteousness | (noun) adhering to moral principles | - |
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| rightfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: right field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right, right field |
| rightful | (adjective) legally valid | - |
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| (adjective) having a legally established claim | Synonyms: lawful, true |
| rightfully | (adverb) by right | Synonyms: truly |
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| rightfulness | (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: right |
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| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| rightish | (adjective) tending toward the political right | - |
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| rightism | (noun) the ideology of the political right; belief in or support of the tenets of the political right | - |
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| rightist | (adjective) believing in or supporting tenets of the political right | Synonyms: right-wing |
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| (noun) a member of a right wing political party | Synonyms: right-winger |
| rightly | (adverb) with honesty | Synonyms: justifiedly, justly |
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| rightmost | (adjective) farthest to the right | - |
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| rightness | (noun) according with conscience or morality | - |
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| (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: correctness |
| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: appropriateness |
| (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: justness, nicety |
| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| schtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtikl, shtickl, shtikl |
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| schtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| schtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, shtickl, shtikl |
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| searchlight | (noun) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction | - |
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| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| shtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| shtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, schtikl, shtikl |
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| shtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| shtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, schtikl, shtickl |
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| shtup | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag |
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| sidelight | (noun) light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow | Synonyms: running light |
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| sight | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: survey, view |
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| (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense |
| (noun) an instance of visual perception | - |
| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) a range of mental vision | - |
| (noun) a place of interest, especially to visitors | - |
| (noun) anything that is seen | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes | Synonyms: spy |
| (verb) take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) | - |
| sighted | (adjective) able to see | - |
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| sightedness | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, seeing |
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| sighting | (noun) the act of observing | - |
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| sightless | (adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: eyeless, unseeing |
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| sightlessness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, cecity |
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| sightly | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, fair |
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| sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| sights | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | - |
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| sightsee | (verb) visit famous or interesting sights | - |
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| sightseeing | (noun) going about to look at places of interest | Synonyms: rubber-necking |
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| sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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| sightsing | (verb) sing from a score without having seen it before | Synonyms: sight-sing |
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| skintight | (adjective) so tight as to cling to the skin | Synonyms: skin-tight |
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| skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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| slaughter | (noun) the killing of animals (as for food) | - |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre |
| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: massacre, mow down |
| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: butcher |
| slaughterer | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: butcher |
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| slaughterhouse | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, shambles |
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| slaughterous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous |
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| sleight | (noun) adroitness in using the hands | Synonyms: dexterity, manual dexterity |
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| slight | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: little |
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| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte |
| (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: rebuff |
| (verb) pay no attention to, disrespect | Synonyms: cold-shoulder |
| slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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| slightingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: disparagingly |
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| slightly | (adverb) to a small degree or extent | Synonyms: more or less, somewhat |
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| (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slenderly, slimly |
| slightness | (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: delicacy |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slimness |
| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, triviality |
| sought | (adjective) that is looked for | - |
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| (adjective) being searched for | Synonyms: sought-after |
| spaceflight | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spacefaring |
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| spotlight | (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye |
| (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| steamtightness | (noun) The property of being being sealed in such a way that steam cannot leak out. | - |
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| stepdaughter | (noun) a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| sticktight | (noun) parasitic on especially the heads of chickens | Synonyms: Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing | Synonyms: beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold |
| stoplight | (noun) a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections | Synonyms: traffic light, traffic signal |
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| (noun) a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop | Synonyms: brake light |
| straight | (adjective) having no deviations | - |
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| (adjective) no longer coiled | Synonyms: uncoiled |
| (adjective) (of hair) having no waves or curls | - |
| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) free from curves or angles | - |
| (adjective) in keeping with the facts | - |
| (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: consecutive |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) following a correct or logical method | - |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straightforward |
| (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: unbent, unbowed |
| (adjective) not homosexual | - |
| (adjective) neatly arranged; not disorderly | - |
| (adjective) (of an alcoholic drink) without water | Synonyms: full-strength, neat |
| (adjective) accurately fitted; level | Synonyms: true |
| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straightaway |
| (noun) a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) | - |
| (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person |
| (adverb) in a straight line; in a direct course | - |
| (adverb) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly | Synonyms: directly, flat |
| (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: direct, directly |
| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off |
| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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| (verb) make straight or straighter | - |
| (verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
| (verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
| straightener | (noun) a device for straightening | - |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| straightforwardly | (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: foursquare, squarely |
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| straightforwardness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: downrightness |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: singleness |
| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straightlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| straightness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, heterosexuality |
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| (noun) freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
| (noun) (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl | - |
| (noun) having honest intentions | Synonyms: good faith |
| (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: directness |
| straightway | (adverb) in a direct course | - |
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| (adverb) at once | - |
| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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| sunlight | (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sun, sunshine |
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| taillight | (noun) lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: rear lamp, rear light, tail lamp |
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