Straightforward

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  straightforward
       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(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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  178 Moby Thesaurus words for "straightforward":
     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