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Exact Match:

direct

lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the direct opposite"

direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"

(of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current"

extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"

similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)"

moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote"

in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"

being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"

command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"

give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"

guide the actors in (plays and films)

be in charge of

Synonyms:

• Attic,
• Ciceronian,
• Spartan,
• address,
• address to,
• administer,
• administrate,
• advise,
• advocate,
• aim,
• aim at,
• allude to,
• apply,
• appoint,
• arrowlike,
• articulated,
• artless,
• ascetic,
• assign,
• austere,
• bald,
• bare,
• be master,
• be responsible for,
• beam,
• bend,
• bid,
• bluff,
• blunt,
• born yesterday,
• brief,
• bring to attention,
• bring to notice,
• broad,
• broaden the mind,
• brusque,
• buckle down,
• call attention to,
• call on,
• call the shots,
• call the signals,
• call upon,
• candid,
• captain,
• carry on,
• carry out,
• carry through,
• cast,
• catechize,
• categorical,
• catenated,
• ceaseless,
• chair,
• charge,
• chart a course,
• chaste,
• childlike,
• cite,
• civilize,
• classic,
• clean-cut,
• clear,
• clear as crystal,
• clear as day,
• clear-cut,
• close,
• coach,
• coherent,
• command,
• commission,
• common,
• commonplace,
• concatenated,
• cond,
• conduct,
• conduct to,
• confer,
• confiding,
• conn,
• connected,
• consistent,
• constant,
• consult with,
• contiguous,
• continual,
• continued,
• continuing,
• continuous,
• control,
• counsel,
• coxswain,
• crisp,
• crystal-clear,
• crystalline,
• cyclical,
• dead,
• dead ahead,
• dead straight,
• deal with,
• decide,
• declare,
• decree,
• define,
• defined,
• definite,
• delicate,
• demonstrate,
• determine,
• devote,
• dictate,
• diphyletic,
• direct attention to,
• direct to,
• directionize,
• directly,
• discipline,
• dispose,
• distinct,
• divert,
• dominate,
• downright,
• drive,
• dry,
• due,
• due north,
• dull,
• easy,
• edify,
• educate,
• elegant,
• endless,
• engineer,
• enjoin,
• enlighten,
• escort,
• even,
• exact,
• explicit,
• express,
• faithful,
• family,
• fasten,
• featureless,
• fine,
• finished,
• firsthand,
• fix,
• fix on,
• flat,
• focus,
• focus on,
• forthright,
• frank,
• frankhearted,
• free,
• free-speaking,
• free-spoken,
• free-tongued,
• gapless,
• genealogical,
• genuine,
• give,
• give an order,
• give instruction,
• give lessons in,
• give the word,
• govern,
• graceful,
• gracile,
• ground,
• guide,
• guileless,
• handle,
• have the conn,
• head,
• head up,
• heart-to-heart,
• helm,
• hold on,
• homely,
• homespun,
• honest,
• horizontal,
• illumine,
• immediate,
• in a beeline,
• in a line,
• in line with,
• inartificial,
• incessant,
• incline,
• inerrable,
• inerrant,
• infallible,
• inform,
• ingenu,
• ingenuous,
• innocent,
• instruct,
• interminable,
• irreversible,
• issue a command,
• issue a writ,
• joined,
• jointless,
• keep,
• kibitz,
• lay,
• lead,
• lead on,
• lead to,
• lean,
• level,
• level at,
• limpid,
• lineal,
• linear,
• linked,
• literally,
• literatim,
• loud and clear,
• lucid,
• luminous,
• mail,
• make go,
• make the rules,
• manage,
• mandate,
• maneuver,
• manipulate,
• mastermind,
• mathematical,
• matter-of-fact,
• meddle,
• mention,
• microscopic,
• monotonous,
• naive,
• native,
• natural,
• navigate,
• neat,
• never-ending,
• next,
• nice,
• nonstop,
• officer,
• one-way,
• open,
• open the eyes,
• openhearted,
• operate,
• ordain,
• order,
• order about,
• outright,
• outspoken,
• pellucid,
• perennial,
• perform on,
• periodic,
• perspicuous,
• phyletic,
• phylogenetic,
• pick out,
• pilot,
• pinpoint,
• plain,
• plain-speaking,
• plain-spoken,
• play,
• point,
• point at,
• point out,
• point out to,
• point the way,
• point to,
• point-blank,
• polished,
• post,
• practice,
• precise,
• prescribe,
• present,
• preside over,
• primary,
• proclaim,
• promulgate,
• pronounce,
• propose,
• prosaic,
• prosing,
• prosy,
• proximate,
• pull the strings,
• pure,
• put right,
• quarterback,
• recommend,
• rectilineal,
• rectilinear,
• recurrent,
• reeducate,
• refer to,
• refined,
• regulate,
• religious,
• religiously exact,
• repetitive,
• require,
• restrained,
• right,
• rigid,
• rigorous,
• round,
• round-the-clock,
• route,
• rule,
• ruler-straight,
• run,
• running,
• rustic,
• say the word,
• school,
• scientific,
• scientifically exact,
• seamless,
• see,
• see to,
• send,
• serried,
• set,
• set right,
• set straight,
• settle,
• severe,
• shape a course,
• sharpen the wits,
• shepherd,
• shortest,
• show,
• show how,
• show the way,
• sight on,
• simple,
• simple-speaking,
• simplehearted,
• simpleminded,
• sincere,
• single-hearted,
• single-minded,
• skipper,
• smooth,
• sober,
• spare,
• specify,
• square,
• stable,
• stand over,
• stark,
• steady,
• steer,
• straight,
• straight across,
• straight ahead,
• straight-cut,
• straight-front,
• straight-out,
• straight-side,
• straightaway,
• straightforward,
• straightforwards,
• straightly,
• straightway,
• streamlined,
• strict,
• submit,
• subtle,
• suggest,
• superintend,
• superscribe,
• supervise,
• tactless,
• take care of,
• take command,
• take the lead,
• tasteful,
• teach,
• teach a lesson,
• teach the rudiments,
• tell,
• terse,
• through,
• throw,
• to the point,
• touch on,
• train,
• train upon,
• translucent,
• transparent,
• transpicuous,
• trim,
• true,
• trustful,
• trusting,
• turn,
• turn upon,
• twenty-four-hour,
• unadorned,
• unaffected,
• unambiguous,
• unartificial,
• unassuming,
• unbending,
• unbent,
• unbowed,
• unbroken,
• unceasing,
• unchecked,
• unconcealed,
• unconfused,
• unconstrained,
• uncurved,
• undeflected,
• undeviating,
• undeviatingly,
• undifferentiated,
• undiplomatic,
• undisguised,
• undissembled,
• undistorted,
• unending,
• unequivocal,
• unerring,
• unfeigning,
• unguarded,
• unidirectional,
• uniform,
• unimaginative,
• uninhibited,
• unintermitted,
• unintermittent,
• unintermitting,
• uninterrupted,
• univocal,
• unlabored,
• unmistakable,
• unmitigated,
• unobstructed,
• unpoetical,
• unpretending,
• unpretentious,
• unqualified,
• unrelieved,
• unremitting,
• unreserved,
• unrestrained,
• unsophisticated,
• unstopped,
• unsuspicious,
• unswerving,
• unswervingly,
• unturned,
• unvarnished,
• unveeringly,
• unwary,
• upright,
• usher,
• vertical,
• warn,
• wear the pants,
• well-defined,
• wield authority,
• wield the baton,
• word for word,
• work