man-to-man
straight from the shoulder
directly
straightforward
point-blank
plainspoken
singly
rightly so
evendown
prosaically
uncryptically
positively
flat
outrightly
straight up
sincere
arrantly
ingenuously
squarely
asseverate
complicitous
due
requisitely
uncryptic
actualistically
sensically
good and proper
mamash
plainly
straight
good
precisely
rightwise
ingenuousness
no more no less
ish
blank
in essence
exactly
incisively
unmistakenly
straightforwardly
absolutely
properly
fairly
preliminarily
on the nose
bang
fair
gain
unfully
uprighteously
gradely
upfront
flatling
soundly
bain
plat
plain
substantively
apparently
patently
obviously
manifestly
unscheming
no joke
simply
luculently
truthfully
unassumedly
evidently
homonymously
prolegomenously
pat
clinical
genuinely
one way or another
in form
exactingly
middling
practically
forehanded
adjuratory
ex professo
in part
proper
right
thus
specific
exact
exactually
point-blank
plainspoken
evendown
sincere
flat
complicitous
uncryptic
blank
upfront
unscheming
clinical
forehanded
adjuratory
specific
man-to-man
straight from the shoulder
directly
straightforward
singly
rightly so
prosaically
uncryptically
positively
flat
outrightly
straight up
arrantly
ingenuously
squarely
due
requisitely
actualistically
sensically
good and proper
mamash
plainly
straight
good
precisely
rightwise
no more no less
ish
exactly
incisively
unmistakenly
straightforwardly
absolutely
properly
fairly
preliminarily
bang
fair
gain
unfully
uprighteously
gradely
flatling
soundly
bain
plat
plain
substantively
apparently
patently
obviously
manifestly
simply
luculently
truthfully
unassumedly
evidently
homonymously
prolegomenously
pat
genuinely
one way or another
exactingly
middling
practically
ex professo
proper
right
thus
exact
exactually
ingenuousness
asseverate
adv
- Straightforwardly; honestly.
- Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
- In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary but by direct means.
- Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.
- In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
- Exactly; just; at the shortest possible distance.
conj
adv
- Directly; flatly.
- Bluntly.
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
adj
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
verb
adv
adj
adv
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
- without deviation
- in a straight line; in a direct course
adj
- having no deviations
- (of hair) having no waves or curls
- characterized by honesty and fairness
- no longer coiled
- free from curves or angles
noun
- a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
adj
adv
adj
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Effective.
- Favourable.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- Very, extremely. See good and.
- Large in amount or size.
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
- Ready
- Healthful.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Competent or talented.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
verb
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- To benefit; gain.
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
intj
noun
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
adj
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
verb
- To make void; to erase.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- To become blank.
- To be temporarily unable to remember.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
noun
- Infertile semen.
- A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
- Blank verse .
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
- A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
prep_phrase
adv
verb
- To inject intravenously.
- To hit hard.
- To engage in sexual intercourse.
- To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
- To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
intj
noun
- An explosion.
- A sudden percussive noise.
- An explosive product.
- A thrill.
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
- strong smell (of)
- An abrupt left turn.
- The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
adv
verb
- To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
- To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
- To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
- To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
noun
- A fair woman; a sweetheart.
- A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).
- An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
- A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
- An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
- Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
adj
- Favorable to a ship's course.
- Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
- Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
- Just, equitable.
- Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
- Not a no ball.
- Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.
- Between the baselines.
- Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
- Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
- Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
- Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
adv
noun
- The thing or things gained.
- The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
adj
verb
- To increase.
- To reach.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
- To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
- To put on weight.
- To run fast.
- To acquire possession of.
- To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
adj
adv
noun
verb
adv
verb
noun
- A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
- A plot of land; a lot.
- Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
adj
adv
noun
- extensive tract of level open land
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
verb
adj
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
- not mixed with extraneous elements
- free from any effort to soften to disguise
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
adj
phrase
adj
- Precise.
- Dealing with the practical management of patients, in practice at the point of care; as contrasted with other health care venues (see clinical medicine for more explanation).
- Cool and emotionless; in a professional way, as contrasted with an impetuous or unprofessional way.
- Objective; analytical.
- Of or pertaining to a clinic, such as a medical clinic or law clinic.
noun
adv
adj
noun
prep_phrase
adv
adj
- Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.
- Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.
- Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.
- Belonging to oneself or itself; own.
- Being strictly part of some other thing (not necessarily explicitly mentioned, but of definitional importance), and not being the thing itself.
- In the strict sense; within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).
- Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter.
- Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.
- Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)
- Attractive, elegant.
- In the very strictest sense of the word.
- Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.
- Utter, complete.
noun
adv
- precisely, exactly
- immediately
- completely
- toward or on the right; also used figuratively
- in the right manner; correctly; suitably
- an interjection expressing agreement; Yes, you are indeed correct
- (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
- to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely
- in accordance with moral or social standards
- in an accurate manner
adj
- being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north
- free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
- in conformance with justice or law or morality
- correct in opinion or judgment
- of or belonging to the political or intellectual right
noun
- an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
- location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
- those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
- the hand that is on the right side of the body
- a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east
- anything in accord with principles of justice
- (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing
adj
- socially right or correct
- appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
- in or into a satisfactory condition
- intended for the right hand
- in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
- having the axis perpendicular to the base
- (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward
- (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- precisely accurate
verb
adj
- explicit or definite.
- of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
- pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
noun
adv
adj
- Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
- Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
- Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
- Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
verb
adv
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