direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | having no intervening medium |
(of a current) flowing in one direction only | very close or connected in space or time |
straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | performed with little or no delay |
similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | of the present time and place |
in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect |
moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | |
lacking compromising or mitigating elements | |
in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | |
having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | |
being an immediate result or consequence | |