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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
straightforward
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is very straightforward - you just type the file name, then press 'Enter'.
▪ The directions to the campsite are fairly straightforward.
▪ The new networking system is fairly straightforward - you shouldn't have any problems.
▪ There's a straightforward calculation for working out how much tax you have to pay.
▪ There are two straightforward ways of achieving this result.
▪ Wes is a straightforward person.
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▪ But these aside, there is the straightforward practical question of why these constraints were allowed to persist.
▪ In practice getting the thing going is straightforward - though care should be taken to avoid excessive flaring.
▪ The coats of many puppies may be less profuse than that of adults, and so grooming will be more straightforward.
▪ The mathematical principles of determining where the rate of change is maximal are, for mathematicians, very straightforward.
▪ The Minister suggested also that the technical arrangements for preserving pension rights will be straightforward.
▪ There is no straightforward way to deal with the question of appropriate products.
▪ Yet no photograph can give a clear and straightforward insight into the past.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Straightforward

Straightforward \Straight`for"ward\, a. Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv. In a straightforward manner. -- Straight`for"ward*ly, adv. -- Straight`for"ward*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
straightforward

1550s, "directly forward, right ahead," from straight (adj.1) + forward (adv.). In reference to language, from 1806. Related: Straightforwardly; straightforwardness.

Wiktionary
straightforward

a. 1 Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviate; honest; frank. 2 easy, simple, without difficulty adv. In a straightforward manner.

WordNet
straightforward

  1. adj. free from ambiguity; "a straightforward set of instructions"

  2. without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" [syn: square(a)]

  3. without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs" [syn: aboveboard]

  4. pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze"

Usage examples of "straightforward".

I certainly was well aware that I was not behaving in a straightforward manner, but I endeavoured to deceive myself, so true it is that a woman, weak as she is, has more influence by the feeling she inspires than man can possibly have with all his strength.

Poor Bunce had darkling throes of mind, but struggled with desperate nervousness and could not be at ease till the straightforward talk began again.

It was a straightforward decision by the BBC not to put it out and I had negotiated a cancellation payment while he was in Australia.

His honest open face, his straightforward words, overwhelmed me, and I was silent for a few minutes--in fact I did not know what to say.

Oliver interrupted with straightforward warning and obvious menace, wiping out in one word all the dithery presentation of ages.

Dealing with aliens seemed relatively straightforward compared with dealing with missing illegal immigrants, dodgy restaurant owners, learning to drive surrounded by a mob of delinquents and appearing in a jinxed dramatic production.

The facts were straightforward enough: the ductus was wide open because this fetus had never taken its first breath.

Straightforward dissections of the earthworm, the frog, the afferent and efferent systems of the dogfish, that kind of thing.

If betrayal is in fact the truth of eroticism, it takes on in these scenes its entire transgressive dimension in relation to straightforward sexuality.

Among the various personages, only one appears to me quite worthy of interest, and that is poor Fulgence, who was so straightforward and honest, and who is treated so badly.

It was a straightforward piece of gangland logic, and Thorne could see the sense of it.

Strat, she found old songs and melodies from her training with Sruitmor, the straightforward modal airs of the Corca Duibne school.

But the story delivers a hidden curveball, plotwise, and also some very rich lessons that its straightforward surface might not immediately suggest.

The procedure to ground a Summoned spirit was pretty straightforward: Summoned beings were, by the very nature of Summoning, bound to the person who called them.

The consulate in Zanzibar, and Crocker and the Germans in Tanga all assure us that the journey is safe and straightforward, so you are not to worry about me, my dearest one.