ALL meanings of directness
di·rect
D d - noun directness The state or quality of being direct. 1
- noun directness honesty, plain speaking 1
- noun directness course, route: straightness 1
- verb with object directness to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time. 1
- verb with object directness to regulate the course of; control: History is directed by a small number of great men and women. 1
- verb with object directness to administer; manage; supervise: She directs the affairs of the estate. 1
- verb with object directness to give authoritative instructions to; command; order or ordain: I directed him to leave the room. 1
- verb with object directness to serve as a director in the production or performance of (a musical work, play, motion picture, etc.). 1
- verb with object directness to guide, tell, or show (a person) the way to a place: I directed him to the post office. 1
- verb with object directness to point, aim, or send toward a place or object: to direct radio waves around the globe. 1
- verb with object directness to channel or focus toward a given result, object, or end (often followed by to or toward): She directed all her energies toward the accomplishment of the work. 1
- verb with object directness to address (words, a speech, a written report, etc.) to a person or persons: The secretary directed his remarks to two of the committee members. 1
- verb with object directness to address (a letter, package, etc.) to an intended recipient. 1
- verb without object directness to act as a guide. 1
- verb without object directness to give commands or orders. 1
- verb without object directness to serve as the director of a play, film, orchestra, etc. 1
- adjective directness proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; straight; undeviating; not oblique: a direct route. 1
- adjective directness proceeding in an unbroken line of descent; lineal rather than collateral: a direct descendant. 1
- adjective directness Mathematics. (of a proportion) containing terms of which an increase (or decrease) in one results in an increase (or decrease) in another: a term is said to be in direct proportion to another term if one increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases). (of a function) the function itself, in contrast to its inverse. Compare inverse (def 2). 1
- adjective directness without intervening persons, influences, factors, etc.; immediate; personal: direct contact with the voters; direct exposure to a disease. 1
- adjective directness straightforward; frank; candid: the direct remarks of a forthright individual. 1
- adjective directness absolute; exact: the direct opposite. 1
- adjective directness consisting exactly of the words originally used; verbatim: direct quotation. 1
- adjective directness Government. of or by action of voters, which takes effect without representatives or another intervening agency, as in direct democracy. 1
- adjective directness inevitable; consequential: War will be a direct result of such political action. 1
- adjective directness allocated for or arising from a particular known agency, process, job, etc.: The new machine was listed by the accountant as a direct cost. 1
- adjective directness Electricity. of or relating to direct current. 1
- adjective directness Astronomy. moving in an orbit in the same direction as the earth in its revolution around the sun. appearing to move on the celestial sphere in the direction of the natural order of the signs of the zodiac, from west to east. Compare retrograde (def 4). 1
- adjective directness Surveying. (of a telescope) in its normal position; not inverted or transited. 1
- adjective directness (of dye colors) working without the use of a mordant; substantive. 1
- adverb directness in a direct manner; directly; straight: Answer me direct. 1