directly
Part of speech: adv
conj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English direct
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English directly
From direct + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more directly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most directly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
pos: adv
examples: He drove directly to the office, and didn't stop off at the petrol station.
On arriving at the doors, and entering a long, capacious passage, our eyes became quite dazzled by the gleams of colored light which shone upon them, both directly and reflectedly.
It is more difficult to directly compare train operations and maintenance, given how fragmented the non-infrastructure segments of the industry are today.
gloss: In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary but by direct means.
pos: adv
examples: I'm sick of asking you to fire him; I'll just do it directly.
gloss: Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
pos: adv
examples: I'm going to tell Natalie directly that I love her.
To put it more directly: he's not 'made redundant' but sacked.
"Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite. In one tweet, Mujtahidd directly challenged Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd about his political history: "Did you resign or were you forced to resign from your post as head of the diwan [office] of the council of ministers?"
gloss: Exactly; just; at the shortest possible distance.
pos: adv
examples: It's directly across the street.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
gloss: Straightforwardly; honestly.
pos: adv
examples: He told me directly that he'd cheated on me, and how sorry he was for it.
gloss: Immediately.
pos: adv
tags: dated
gloss: Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.
pos: adv
tags: Cornwall
Midlands
Southern-US
dated
dialectal
including
examples: We'll go to the store directly, but first I need to finish sweeping.
gloss: As soon as; immediately (elliptical for directly that/as/when)
pos: conj
tags: British
examples: “He is, he is," Nastenka repeated. “He is here, and I know it. We made an agreement at the time, that evening, before he went away: when we said all that I have told you, and had come to an understanding, then we came out here for a walk on this embankment. It was ten o'clock; we sat on this seat. I was not crying then; it was sweet to me to hear what he said.... And he said that he would come to us directly he arrived, and if I did not refuse him, then we would tell grandmother about it all. Now he is here, I know it, and yet he does not come!"
Tenderly, reluctantly, he took his leave of her, promising that he would contact her directly he got back, perhaps in ten days or so.
He is to go to Calais, directly this is over, to replace Lord Berners as governor [...].
Synonyms: clearly
downrightly
unambiguously
dead
precisely
slap bang
now
tout de suite
in due course
presently
shortly
Antonyms: circuitously
indirectly
later
Derived words: directly proportional
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