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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, straightforward, straight]
3: without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs" [syn: aboveboard, straightforward]
4: pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1790 1. a. free from evasiveness or obscurity ; exact, candid <a straightforward account> b. clear-cut, precise 2. proceeding in a straight course or manner ; direct, undeviating • straightforwardly adverb • straightforwardness noun II. adverb also straightforwards Date: 1809 in a straightforward manner

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 honest or frank. 2 (of a task etc.) uncomplicated. Derivatives: straightforwardly adv. straightforwardness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe something as straightforward, you approve of it because it is easy to do or understand. Disposable nappies are fairly straightforward to put on... The question seemed straightforward enough. ADJ: oft ADJ to-inf [approval] 2. If you describe a person or their behaviour as straightforward, you approve of them because they are honest and direct, and do not try to hide their feelings. She is very blunt, very straightforward and very honest... ADJ [approval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Direct, undeviating, straight. 2. Truthful, veracious, reliable, trustworthy. 3. Honest, honorable, equitable, fair, just, square, even-handed, upright, straight, conscientious. 4. Artless, ingenuous, frank, sincere, candid, honest, guileless, outspoken, true-hearted. II. ad. Directly, in a straight line, without turning to the right or to the left.

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, aboveboard, apparent, artless, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barefaced, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, casual, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, common, commonplace, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, cushy, dead, dead ahead, defined, definite, direct, directly, distinct, downright, dry, due, due north, dull, easy, easy as pie, effortless, elegant, evident, explicit, express, facile, finished, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, glib, graceful, gracile, heart-to-heart, homely, homespun, honest, honorable, immediate, in a beeline, in line with, inartificial, incomplex, ingenuous, irreversible, just, lean, light, limpid, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter-of-fact, native, natural, neat, nothing to it, one-way, open, openhearted, outspoken, painless, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain dealing, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, polished, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, refined, restrained, right, round, rustic, severe, simple, simple as ABC, simple-speaking, sincere, smooth, sober, soft, spare, stark, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straight-out, straightaway, straightforwards, straightly, straightway, tasteful, terse, through, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unadorned, unaffected, unambiguous, unartificial, unassuming, unbroken, unburdensome, unchecked, uncomplicated, unconcealed, unconfused, unconstrained, undeviating, undeviatingly, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, unequivocal, unfeigning, unguarded, unidirectional, unimaginative, uninterrupted, uninvolved, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unpoetical, unpretending, unpretentious, unreserved, unrestrained, unswerving, unswervingly, unvarnished, unveeringly, upright, upstanding, well-defined