directly
Meaning of directly
- In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
He drove directly to the office, and didn't stop off at the petrol station.
- In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct means.
I'm sick of asking you to fire him, I'll just do it directly.
- Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
I'm going to tell Natalie directly that I love her.
- Exactly; just.
It's directly across the street.
- Straightforwardly; honestly.
He told me directly that he'd cheated on me, and how sorry he was for it.
- Immediately.
- Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.
We'll go to the store directly, but first I need to finish sweeping.
conjunction
As soon as; immediately.
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Hyphenation of directly
di-rectly
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- directly is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
directly synonyms
Meaning straight:
Meaning immediately:
immediately, instantly, straightaway, now, forthwith
Meaning flat:
Meaning :
accurately, precisely, straightwise, undeviatingly, betimes, presently, shortly, frankly, truthfully, bluntly, clearly, downrightly, unambiguously
directly antonyms
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Translation of directly
- Spanish: directamente, inmediatamente, enseguida
- French: directement, immédiatement, illico, astheure
- Italian: direttamente, subito, immediatamente
- German: direkt, gleich, augenblicklich, unverzüglich, sofort, sogleich
- Portuguese: imediatamente
Anagrams of directly
Words that rhyme with directly
abstractly, compactly, contractly, exactly, incompactly, inexactly, intactly, nonabstractly, superabstractly, unexactly, abjectly, circumspectly, correctly, dejectly, electly, erectly, hypercorrectly, imperfectly, incircumspectly, incorrectly, indirectly, noncircumspectly, perfectly, pluperfectly, precorrectly, prefectly, selectly, semierectly, suberectly, superperfectly, unabjectly, uncircumspectly, uncorrectly, undirectly, unperfectly, derelictly, districtly, overstrictly, strictly, superstrictly, unstrictly, adjunctly, conjunctly, contradistinctly, distinctly, indistinctly, junctly, sacrosanctly, sejunctly, succinctly