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View synonyms for straight-ahead

straight-ahead

[ streyt-uh-hed ]

adjective

  1. not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard:

    a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of straight-ahead1

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

He makes his way, step by agonizing step, his face red and wheezing, his eyes straight ahead.

She says nothing, looks straight ahead at everything, and sits by her child.

Portraits of the Rolling Stones and other easily recognizable stars populate the small, alcove-like room straight ahead.

He was always straight-ahead and anytime there was a hiccup or anything, he was really good at dealing with it.

Matt went straight ahead until he reached two closed doors, one left, one right.

Straight ahead a section of building jutted up and revealed two small windows, which seemed to regard him like watching eyes.

Out from where the boys stood, straight ahead rolled the bay, with an unbroken view away across to the cape, some five miles off.

I did not turn my head to see whether Whistling Jim was following, but rode straight ahead.

"They are going straight ahead—the same way we are going," High Eagle told him.

Her eyes looked straight ahead into the eyes of the stranger.

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