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- a straightforward account of the football game with no digressions or personal comments
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- the missile continued on its straightforward path toward the enemy's command post
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- I want you to be straightforward with me and tell me if this dress looks awful
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- artless,
- earnest,
- guileless,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naive
- (or naïve),
- natural,
- real,
- sincere,
- unaffected,
- undesigning,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious
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- the distinction between the two types of offenses is pretty straightforward
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- apparent,
- bald,
- bald-faced,
- barefaced,
- bright-line,
- broad,
- clear,
- clear-cut,
- crystal clear,
- decided,
- distinct,
- evident,
- lucid,
- luculent,
- luminous,
- manifest,
- nonambiguous,
- obvious,
- open-and-shut,
- palpable,
- patent,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- ringing,
- transparent,
- unambiguous,
- unambivalent,
- unequivocal,
- unmistakable
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- ambiguous,
- clouded,
- cryptic,
- dark,
- enigmatic
- (also enigmatical),
- equivocal,
- indistinct,
- mysterious,
- nonobvious,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- unapparent,
- unclarified,
- unclear
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adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of straightforward (Entry 2 of 2)
- she finally told him straightforward that she wasn't interested in a date
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The first known use of straightforward was in 1790
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