straightly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10

Definition of straightly

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a straight manner; without curve or bend.
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adv

  1. In a straight manner; without curve or bend.
  2. Without deviation; directly.
    “[…] I was directing my course towards it, as straightly and as speedily as the windings of a very indifferent road would permit, […]”
  3. Immediately; straightaway.
    “[W]hẽ the vnclene ſpritꝭ ſawe him⸝ they fell doune before him⸝ and cryed ſayinge: thou arte the ſonne of God: And he ſtreyghtly charged thẽ that they ſhulde not vtter him.”
    “After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.”

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Etymology

From Middle English streightly, streightli, streiȝtli, equivalent to straight + -ly.

Anagrams of straightly

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