| straighten | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. straighten, unbend | straighten up or out; make straight. |
| ~ change posture | undergo a change in bodily posture. |
| v. (contact) | 2. straighten, straighten out | make straight. |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ untwist | cause to become untwisted. |
| ~ unbend | free from flexure.; "unbend a bow" |
| ~ extend | open or straighten out; unbend.; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?" |
| ~ channelise, channelize | cause to form a channel.; "channelize a stream" |
| ~ untwine | undo what has been twined together.; "untwine the strings" |
| ~ unweave | undo strands that have been woven together. |
| ~ comb | straighten with a comb.; "comb your hair" |
| v. (motion) | 3. straighten | get up from a sitting or slouching position.; "The students straightened when the teacher entered" |
| ~ rear, rise up | stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds.; "The horse reared in terror" |
| ~ straighten up, draw up, pull up | straighten oneself.; "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior" |
| ~ change posture | undergo a change in bodily posture. |
| v. (change) | 4. clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up | put (things or places) in order.; "Tidy up your room!" |
| ~ make up, make | put in order or neaten.; "make the bed"; "make up a room" |
| ~ order | bring order to or into.; "Order these files" |
| ~ clean house, houseclean, clean | clean and tidy up the house.; "She housecleans every week" |
| v. (contact) | 5. roll out, straighten | straighten by unrolling.; "roll out the big map" |
| ~ unwind, disentangle | separate the tangles of. |
| v. (change) | 6. straighten | make straight or straighter.; "Straighten this post"; "straighten hair" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| straighten out | | |
| v. (change) | 1. iron out, put right, straighten out | settle or put right.; "we need to iron out our disagreements" |
| ~ ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better | to make better.; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" |
| v. (contact) | 2. disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl | extricate from entanglement.; "Can you disentangle the cord?" |
| ~ order | bring order to or into.; "Order these files" |
| ~ tease apart, loosen, tease | disentangle and raise the fibers of.; "tease wool" |
| ~ ravel, ravel out, unravel | disentangle.; "can you unravel the mystery?" |
| v. (change) | 3. reform, see the light, straighten out | change for the better.; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light" |
| ~ ameliorate, improve, meliorate, better | get better.; "The weather improved toward evening" |
| ~ reform, reclaim, rectify, regenerate | bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out | make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" |
| ~ clarify, clear up, elucidate | make clear and (more) comprehensible.; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" |
| right | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. right | an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature.; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away" |
| ~ access | the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership). |
| ~ advowson | the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice. |
| ~ cabotage | the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders. |
| ~ claim, title | an informal right to something.; "his claim on her attentions"; "his title to fame" |
| ~ due | that which is deserved or owed.; "give the devil his due" |
| ~ access, admittance, entree, admission, accession | the right to enter. |
| ~ floor | the parliamentary right to address an assembly.; "the chairman granted him the floor" |
| ~ grant | a right or privilege that has been granted. |
| ~ human right | (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law). |
| ~ legal right | a right based in law. |
| ~ pre-emption, preemption | the right to purchase something in advance of others. |
| ~ exclusive right, prerogative, perquisite, privilege | a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right).; "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" |
| ~ privilege | (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship. |
| ~ representation | the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body. |
| ~ right of action | the legal right to sue. |
| ~ right of search | the right of a belligerent to stop neutral ships on the high seas in wartime and search them. |
| ~ right of way | the right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another. |
| ~ states' rights | the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution. |
| ~ voting right | the right to vote; especially the right of a common shareholder to vote in person or by proxy on the affairs of a company. |
| ~ riparian right, water right | right of access to water. |
| ~ abstract, abstraction | a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance.; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person" |
| n. (location) | 2. right | location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east.; "he stood on the right" |
| ~ position, place | the particular portion of space occupied by something.; "he put the lamp back in its place" |
| ~ right stage, stage right | the part of the stage on the actor's right as the actor faces the audience. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. right, right field, rightfield | the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right. |
| ~ outfield | the area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting the bases. |
| ~ parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel | an extended area of land. |
| n. (group) | 4. right, right wing | those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged. |
| ~ faction, sect | a dissenting clique. |
| ~ religious right | United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools. |
| ~ hard right | the extreme right wing. |
| n. (body) | 5. right, right hand | the hand that is on the right side of the body.; "he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left"; "hit him with quick rights to the body" |
| ~ hand, manus, mitt, paw | the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" |
| n. (act) | 6. right | a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east.; "take a right at the corner" |
| ~ turning, turn | the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course.; "he took a turn to the right" |
| n. (attribute) | 7. right, rightfulness | anything in accord with principles of justice.; "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim" |
| ~ justice, justness | the quality of being just or fair. |
| n. (possession) | 8. right | (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing.; "mineral rights"; "film rights" |
| ~ plural, plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one. |
| ~ stake, interest | (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something.; "they have interests all over the world"; "a stake in the company's future" |
| v. (social) | 9. compensate, correct, redress, right | make reparations or amends for.; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ over-correct, overcompensate | make excessive corrections for fear of making an error. |
| ~ aby, abye, atone, expiate | make amends for.; "expiate one's sins" |
| v. (motion) | 10. right | put in or restore to an upright position.; "They righted the sailboat that had capsized" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ right | regain an upright or proper position.; "The capsized boat righted again" |
| v. (motion) | 11. right | regain an upright or proper position.; "The capsized boat righted again" |
| ~ change posture | undergo a change in bodily posture. |
| ~ right | put in or restore to an upright position.; "They righted the sailboat that had capsized" |
| v. (change) | 12. correct, rectify, right | make right or correct.; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" |
| ~ change by reversal, reverse, turn | change to the contrary.; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" |
| ~ remediate, remedy, amend, rectify, repair | set straight or right.; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" |
| ~ debug | locate and correct errors in a computer program code.; "debug this program" |
| adj. | 13. right | being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north.; "my right hand"; "right center field"; "a right-hand turn"; "the right bank of a river is the bank on your right side when you are facing downstream" |
| ~ right-handed | using or intended for the right hand.; "a right-handed batter"; "right-handed scissors" |
| ~ far | being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle.; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse" |
| ~ rightmost | farthest to the right.; "in the rightmost line of traffic" |
| ~ right-hand | located on or directed toward the right.; "a right-hand turn" |
| ~ starboard | located on the right side of a ship or aircraft. |
| adj. | 14. correct, right | free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth.; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision" |
| ~ accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy.; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale" |
| ~ accurate, exact, precise | (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct.; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement" |
| ~ letter-perfect, word-perfect | correct to the last detail; especially being in or following the exact words.; "a letter-perfect rendition of the soliloquy"; "she was word-perfect in her part" |
| ~ straight | following a correct or logical method.; "straight reasoning" |
| ~ proper | marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness.; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" |
| ~ true | consistent with fact or reality; not false.; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"; "the true meaning of the statement" |
| adj. | 15. correct, right | socially right or correct.; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" |
| ~ proper | marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness.; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" |
| adj. | 16. right | in conformance with justice or law or morality.; "do the right thing and confess" |
| ~ ethical | conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior.; "an ethical lawyer"; "ethical medical practice"; "an ethical problem"; "had no ethical objection to drinking"; "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants" |
| ~ good | morally admirable. |
| ~ just | used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting.; "a just and lasting peace"; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward"; "his just inheritance" |
| ~ proper | marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness.; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" |
| ~ honourable, ethical, honorable | adhering to ethical and moral principles.; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action" |
| adj. | 17. correct, right | correct in opinion or judgment.; "time proved him right" |
| ~ right-minded | disposed toward or having views based on what is right.; "respect for law which every right-minded citizen ought to have" |
| adj. | 18. proper, right | appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs.; "everything in its proper place"; "the right man for the job"; "she is not suitable for the position" |
| ~ appropriate | suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc.; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate" |
| adj. | 19. right | of or belonging to the political or intellectual right. |
| ~ conservative | resistant to change. |
| ~ conservative | having social or political views favoring conservatism. |
| ~ old-line, oldline | adhering to conservative or reactionary principles.; "an oldline senator" |
| ~ far-right, reactionary, reactionist | extremely conservative. |
| ~ rightish | tending toward the political right. |
| ~ right-wing, rightist | believing in or supporting tenets of the political right. |
| adj. | 20. right | in or into a satisfactory condition.; "things are right again now"; "put things right" |
| ~ satisfactory | giving satisfaction.; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory" |
| adj. | 21. right, right-hand | intended for the right hand.; "a right-hand glove" |
| ~ right-handed | using or intended for the right hand.; "a right-handed batter"; "right-handed scissors" |
| adj. | 22. correct, right | in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure.; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters" |
| ~ proper | marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness.; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" |
| adj. | 23. right | having the axis perpendicular to the base.; "a right angle" |
| ~ geometry | the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces. |
| ~ perpendicular | intersecting at or forming right angles.; "the axes are perpendicular to each other" |
| adj. | 24. right | (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward.; "the right side of the cloth showed the pattern"; "be sure your shirt is right side out" |
| ~ outside | relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit.; "an outside margin" |
| adj. | 25. good, right, ripe | most suitable or right for a particular purpose.; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes" |
| ~ opportune | suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose.; "an opportune place to make camp"; "an opportune arrival" |
| adj. | 26. right, veracious | precisely accurate.; "a veracious account" |
| ~ accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy.; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale" |
| adv. | 27. right | precisely, exactly.; "stand right here!" |
| adv. | 28. right | immediately.; "she called right after dinner" |
| adv. | 29. flop, right | exactly.; "he fell flop on his face" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| adv. | 30. right | toward or on the right; also used figuratively.; "he looked right and left"; "the party has moved right" |
| adv. | 31. decent, decently, in good order, properly, right, the right way | in the right manner.; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?" |
| adv. | 32. right, right on | an interjection expressing agreement. |
| adv. | 33. right | completely.; "she felt right at home"; "he fell right into the trap" |
| adv. | 34. mightily, mighty, powerful, right | (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree.; "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"; "they rejoiced mightily" |
| ~ intensifier, intensive | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" |
| adv. | 35. justly, right | in accordance with moral or social standards.; "that serves him right"; "do right by him" |
| adv. | 36. aright, correctly, right | in an accurate manner.; "the flower had been correctly depicted by his son"; "he guessed right" |
| straight | | |
| n. (person) | 1. heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight, straight person | a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ fucker | someone who engages in sexual intercourse. |
| n. (group) | 2. straight | a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit). |
| ~ poker hand | the 5 cards held in a game of poker. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. straight, straightaway | a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse. |
| ~ segment, section | one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road" |
| ~ stretch | a straightaway section of a racetrack. |
| adj. | 4. consecutive, straight | successive (without a break).; "sick for five straight days" |
| ~ continuous, uninterrupted | continuing in time or space without interruption.; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks" |
| adj. | 5. straight | having no deviations.; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders" |
| ~ direct | direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" |
| ~ vertical, perpendicular | at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line.; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height" |
| ~ aligned | in a straight line.; "pearly teeth evenly aligned" |
| ~ unbent | not bent.; "looking for an unbent nail"; "trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber" |
| ~ untwisted | not twisted; formerly twisted but now straight. |
| adj. | 6. straight | (of hair) having no waves or curls.; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky" |
| ~ uncurled | not having been curled. |
| ~ unpermed | not having had a permanent wave.; "smooth glossy unpermed hair" |
| adj. | 7. straight, unbent, unbowed | erect in posture.; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back" |
| ~ erect, upright, vertical | upright in position or posture.; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright" |
| adj. | 8. straight | in keeping with the facts.; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report" |
| ~ accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy.; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale" |
| adj. | 9. square, straight | characterized by honesty and fairness.; "straight dealing"; "a square deal" |
| ~ honest, honorable | not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent.; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting" |
| ~ lawful | conformable to or allowed by law.; "lawful methods of dissent" |
| ~ aboveboard, straightforward | without concealment or deception; honest.; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs" |
| ~ guileless, transparent | free of deceit. |
| ~ straightarrow | conventionally moral and upright. |
| adj. | 10. straight, uncoiled | no longer coiled. |
| ~ uncurled | not curled.; "lay uncurled on the bed" |
| adj. | 11. straight | free from curves or angles.; "a straight line" |
| ~ trabeate, trabeated | not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches). |
| ~ uncurved, uncurving | having no curves. |
| adj. | 12. straight | neatly arranged; not disorderly.; "the room is straight now" |
| ~ tidy | marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits.; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind" |
| adj. | 13. straight | not homosexual. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ heterosexual | sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex. |
| adj. | 14. straight, true | accurately fitted; level.; "the window frame isn't quite true" |
| ~ even | being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with).; "an even application of varnish"; "an even floor"; "the road was not very even"; "the picture is even with the window" |
| adj. | 15. square, straight, straightforward | without evasion or compromise.; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" |
| ~ direct | straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach" |
| adj. | 16. full-strength, neat, straight | without water.; "took his whiskey neat" |
| ~ undiluted | not diluted.; "undiluted milk"; "an undiluted racial strain" |
| adj. | 17. straight | following a correct or logical method.; "straight reasoning" |
| ~ correct, right | free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth.; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision" |
| adj. | 18. square, straight | rigidly conventional or old-fashioned. |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ conventional | unimaginative and conformist.; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" |
| adv. | 19. direct, directly, straight | without deviation.; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" |
| adv. | 20. directly, flat, straight | in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly.; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" |
| adv. | 21. straight | in a straight line; in a direct course.; "the road runs straight" |
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