straightforward
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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)}, {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"
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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