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/dərˈɛktli/ /dɪrˈɛkli/ /daɪrˈɛkli/ Listen

Directly

adverb

Without deviation. Synonyms: direct, straight. "Went direct to the office"

Without anyone or anything intervening. "He was directly responsible" , "Measured the physical properties directly"

Without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening. Synonyms: at once, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway. "Found an answer straightaway" , "An official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith" , "Come here now!"

In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly. Synonyms: flat, straight. "Told me straight out" , "Came out flat for less work and more pay"

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"Directly" Quotes from Famous Books

... could see nearly fifty feet ahead of her. Captain Jules walked just in front of her, swinging his great body from side to side, peering down into the sandy bottom of the bay. Madge discovered that the only way in which she could get a view, except the one directly in front of her, was by turning her head inside her helmet, to look through her side window glasses. The goggles over her eyes gave her just the view that a horse ...

— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers

... away gave her a fine bunch of flowers. Fanny was in great delight, for she loved flowers and knew her dear grandmother loved them too. But as she was coming back, and just as she was entering the streets, she met a lady and a little boy of about three years old, who directly held out his hands and began to beg for the flowers. His mamma stopped, and as Fanny was very poorly dressed, she thought it probable that she would sell her nosegay, and ...

— Fanny, the Flower-Girl • Selina Bunbury

... A verb whose action passes over to the object directly, as in the sentence above, is called a /transitive verb. A verb which does not admit of a direct object is called /intransitive, as, ...

— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

... immediately forthcoming when called for, was regarded as a grave and inexcusable offence: not only by my pupils and their mother, but by the very servant, who came in breathless haste to call me, exclaiming, 'You're to go to the schoolroom DIRECTLY, mum, the young ladies is WAITING!!' Climax of horror! ...

— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte

... I engaged as guide one Krsto, recommended me in 1903 at Andrijevitza by a botany professor from Prague, and while our start was preparing went with Kapetan Gjuro Vrbitza and another officer by a track to the mountain's edge whence we could look directly down upon Cattaro. A gun emplacement was made there later. The two Montenegrins amused themselves by hurling stones into Austrian territory—feeling ran then strongly against Austria. For the first time I ...

— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith

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