Main entry: direct
Definition: direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
Usage: a direct route; a direct flight; a direct hit
Antonyms: indirect
Definition: not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
Main entry: direct
Definition: (of a current) flowing in one direction only
Usage: direct current
Antonyms: alternating
Definition: (of a current) reversing direction
Main entry: direct
Definition: straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
Usage: a direct question; a direct response; a direct approach
Antonyms: indirect
Definition: extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
Antonyms: patterned
Definition: having patterns (especially colorful patterns)
Antonyms: fancy
Definition: not plain; decorative or ornamented
Definition: having a circular shape
Antonyms: curly
Definition: (of hair) having curls or waves
Antonyms: crooked
Definition: having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
Definition: having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend
Definition: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
Antonyms: unpointed, pointless
Definition: not having a point especially a sharp point
Main entry: direct
Definition: similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
Usage: a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)
Antonyms: inverse
Definition: opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
Main entry: direct
Definition: moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
Antonyms: retrograde
Definition: moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
Main entry: direct, lineal
Definition: in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
Usage: lineal ancestors; lineal heirs; a direct descendant of the king; direct heredity
Antonyms: indirect, collateral
Definition: descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
Antonyms: multilateral, many-sided
Definition: having many parts or sides
Main entry: direct
Definition: being an immediate result or consequence
Usage: a direct result of the accident
Antonyms: secondary
Definition: being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
Main entry: direct
Definition: lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
Usage: the direct opposite
Antonyms: relative, comparative
Definition: estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
Main entry: direct, verbatim
Definition: in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
Usage: a direct quotation; repeated their dialog verbatim
Antonyms: inexact
Definition: not exact
Main entry: direct, unmediated
Definition: having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
Usage: in direct sunlight; in direct contact with the voters; direct exposure to the disease; a direct link; the direct cause of the accident; direct vote
Antonyms: mediate
Definition: acting through or dependent on an intervening agency