direct
//daɪˈɹɛkt//
Forms
- Comparative
- more direct
- Superlative
- most direct
- Comparative
- more direct
- Superlative
- most direct
- present (v1)
- direct
- past (v2)
- directed
- past participle (v3)
- directed
- present participle
- directing
- 3rd person singular
- directs
Definitions
1.Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
2.Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
3.Straightforward; sincere.
- Be even and direct with me.
4.Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
- Nor did the government scruple a direct and avowed interference with elections.
1.Directly.
- Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct.
- The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.
1.To manage, control, steer.
2.To aim (something) at (something else).
- He directed his question to the room in general.
- They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
3.To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; to refer.
- He directed me to the left-hand road.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1612
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dīrēctus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + regō (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress. Doublet of derecho.