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straightforward
adjective
1 straightforward
Free from ambiguity.
Roget 543:
truthful,
true;
veracious,
veridical;
scrupulous
etc.
(honorable)
939;
sincere,
candid,
frank,
open,
straightforward,
unreserved;
open hearted,
true hearted,
simple-hearted;
honest,
trustworthy;
undissembling
etc.
(dissemble)
etc.
544†;
guileless,
pure;
truth-loving;
unperjured†;
true blue,
as good as one's word;
unaffected,
unfeigned,
bona fide;
outspoken,
ingenuous
etc.
(artless)
703;
undisguised
etc.
(real)
494.
uncontrived.
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2 straightforward
Without evasion or compromise:
— He is not being as straightforward as it appears.
synonyms: square, straight.
Roget 939:
upright;
honest,
honest as daylight;
veracious
etc.
543;
virtuous
etc.
944;
honorable;
fair,
right,
just,
equitable,
impartial,
evenhanded,
square;
fair and aboveboard,
open and aboveboard;
white [U.S.].
constant,
constant as the northern star;
faithful,
loyal,
staunch;
true,
true blue,
true to one's colors,
true to the core,
true as the needle to the pole;
marble-constant"
[Antony and Cleopatra];
true-hearted,
trusty,
trustworthy;
as good as one's word,
to be depended on,
incorruptible.
straightforward
etc.
(ingenuous)
703;
frank,
candid,
open-hearted.
conscientious,
tender-conscienced,
right-minded;
high-principled,
high-minded;
scrupulous,
religious,
strict;
nice,
punctilious,
correct,
punctual;
respectable,
reputable;
gentlemanlike†.
inviolable,
inviolate;
unviolated†,
unbroken,
unbetrayed;
unbought,
unbribed†.
innocent
etc.
946;
pure,
stainless;
unstained,
untarnished,
unsullied,
untainted,
unperjured†;
uncorrupt,
uncorrupted;
undefiled,
undepraved†,
undebauched†;
integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat.]
[Horace];
justus et tenax propositi [Lat.]
[Horace].
chivalrous,
jealous of honor,
sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.];
high-spirited.
supramundane†,
unworldly,
other-worldly,
overscrupulous†.
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Roget 278:
directed
etc.
v..
directed towards;
pointing towards
etc.
v.;
bound for;
aligned,
with alligned with†;
direct,
straight;
undeviating,
unswerving;
straightforward;
North,
Northern,
Northerly,
etc.
n..
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3 straightforward
Without concealment or deception; honest:
— Straightforward in all his business affairs.
synonym: aboveboard.
Roget 703:
artless,
natural,
pure,
native,
confiding,
simple,
lain,
inartificial†,
untutored,
unsophisticated,
ingenu†,
unaffected,
naive;
sincere,
frank;
open,
open as day;
candid,
ingenuous,
guileless;
unsuspicious,
honest
etc.
939;
innocent
etc.
946;
Arcadian†;
undesigning,
straightforward,
unreserved,
aboveboard;
simple-minded,
single-minded;
frank-hearted,
open-hearted,
single-hearted,
simple-hearted.
free-spoken,
plain-spoken,
outspoken;
blunt,
downright,
direct,
matter of fact,
unpoetical†;
unflattering.
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4 straightforward
Moby thesaurus: Attic, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, aboveboard, apparent, artless, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barefaced, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, casual, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, common, commonplace, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, cushy, dead, dead ahead, defined, definite, direct, directly, distinct, downright, dry, due, due north, dull, easy, easy as pie, effortless, elegant, evident, explicit, express, facile, finished, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, glib, graceful, gracile, heart-to-heart, homely, homespun, honest, honorable, immediate, in a beeline, in line with, inartificial, incomplex, ingenuous, irreversible, just, lean, light, limpid, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter-of-fact, native, natural, neat, nothing to it, one-way, open, openhearted, outspoken, painless, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain dealing, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, polished, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, refined, restrained, right, round, rustic, severe, simple, simple as ABC, simple-speaking, sincere, smooth, sober, soft, spare, stark, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straight-out, straightaway, straightforwards, straightly, straightway, tasteful, terse, through, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unadorned, unaffected, unambiguous, unartificial, unassuming, unbroken, unburdensome, unchecked, uncomplicated, unconcealed, unconfused, unconstrained, undeviating, undeviatingly, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, unequivocal, unfeigning, unguarded, unidirectional, unimaginative, uninterrupted, uninvolved, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unpoetical, unpretending, unpretentious, unreserved, unrestrained, unswerving, unswervingly, unvarnished, unveeringly, upright, upstanding, well-defined ... show more.
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