direct (v.)
- address
- administer
- administrate
- advise
- advocate
- aim
- apply
- appoint
- assign
- bald
- bare
- beam
- bend
- bid
- bluff
- blunt
- brief
- captain
- cast
- catechize
- chair
- charge
- cite
- civilize
- clear
- clear-cut
- close
- coach
- command
- commission
- cond
- conduct
- confer
- conn
- control
- counsel
- crisp
- dead
- decide
- declare
- decree
- define
- demonstrate
- determine
- devote
- dictate
- discipline
- dispose
- divert
- dominate
- drive
- dry
- due
- dull
- easy
- edify
- educate
- engineer
- enjoin
- enlighten
- escort
- even
- exact
- express
- fasten
- fine
- fix
- flat
- focus
- frank
- free
- give
- govern
- ground
- guide
- handle
- head
- helm
- illumine
- incline
- inform
- instruct
- keep
- kibitz
- lay
- lead
- lean
- level
- manage
- mandate
- maneuver
- manipulate
- mastermind
- meddle
- mention
- navigate
- nice
- officer
- open
- operate
- ordain
- order
- pilot
- pinpoint
- plain
- play
- point
- post
- practice
- prescribe
- present
- proclaim
- promulgate
- pronounce
- propose
- proximate
- pure
- quarterback
- recommend
- regulate
- require
- right
- round
- route
- rule
- run
- school
- see
- send
- set
- settle
- severe
- shepherd
- show
- skipper
- smooth
- sober
- spare
- specify
- square
- stable
- steady
- steer
- strict
- submit
- suggest
- superintend
- superscribe
- supervise
- teach
- tell
- through
- throw
- train
- trim
- true
- turn
- uniform
- unturned
- upright
- usher
- warn
- work
direct (adv.)
- beam
- brief
- broad
- charge
- clear
- close
- common
- cond
- control
- dead
- directly
- downright
- due
- easy
- even
- express
- fine
- firsthand
- flat
- forthright
- free
- ground
- head
- lead
- lean
- literally
- literatim
- mention
- next
- nonstop
- order
- outright
- plain
- point-blank
- post
- precise
- present
- right
- round
- route
- square
- stark
- steady
- straight
- straightaway
- straightway
- through
- true
- turn
- unswervingly
- work
direct (adj.)
- articulated
- artless
- ascetic
- austere
- bald
- bare
- beam
- bend
- bid
- bluff
- blunt
- brief
- broad
- brusque
- candid
- cast
- categorical
- ceaseless
- chaste
- childlike
- classic
- clean-cut
- clear
- clear-cut
- close
- coherent
- common
- commonplace
- cond
- confiding
- connected
- consistent
- constant
- contiguous
- continual
- continued
- continuing
- continuous
- crisp
- crystalline
- cyclical
- dead
- defined
- definite
- delicate
- distinct
- dominate
- downright
- dry
- due
- dull
- easy
- elegant
- endless
- even
- exact
- explicit
- express
- faithful
- featureless
- fine
- finished
- firsthand
- flat
- forthright
- frank
- free
- free-spoken
- genealogical
- genuine
- give
- graceful
- gracile
- ground
- guileless
- head
- heart-to-heart
- homely
- homespun
- honest
- horizontal
- immediate
- incessant
- inerrable
- inerrant
- infallible
- ingenuous
- innocent
- interminable
- irreversible
- joined
- lay
- lead
- lean
- level
- limpid
- lineal
- linear
- linked
- lucid
- luminous
- mathematical
- matter-of-fact
- microscopic
- monotonous
- naive
- native
- natural
- neat
- never-ending
- next
- nice
- nonstop
- one-way
- open
- openhearted
- order
- outright
- outspoken
- pellucid
- perennial
- periodic
- perspicuous
- phyletic
- phylogenetic
- plain
- play
- point
- point-blank
- polished
- post
- practice
- precise
- present
- primary
- prosaic
- prosy
- proximate
- pure
- rectilineal
- rectilinear
- recurrent
- refined
- religious
- repetitive
- restrained
- right
- rigid
- rigorous
- round
- round-the-clock
- run
- running
- rustic
- school
- scientific
- seamless
- see
- serried
- set
- severe
- simple
- sincere
- single-minded
- smooth
- sober
- spare
- square
- stable
- stark
- steady
- straight
- straight-out
- straightaway
- straightforward
- streamlined
- strict
- subtle
- tactless
- tasteful
- terse
- through
- translucent
- transparent
- trim
- true
- trustful
- trusting
- turn
- unadorned
- unaffected
- unambiguous
- unassuming
- unbending
- unbent
- unbowed
- unbroken
- unceasing
- unchecked
- unconcealed
- unconfused
- unconstrained
- uncurved
- undeviating
- undifferentiated
- undiplomatic
- undisguised
- undistorted
- unending
- unequivocal
- unerring
- unguarded
- unidirectional
- uniform
- unimaginative
- uninhibited
- uninterrupted
- univocal
- unmistakable
- unmitigated
- unobstructed
- unpretending
- unpretentious
- unqualified
- unrelieved
- unremitting
- unreserved
- unrestrained
- unsophisticated
- unsuspicious
- unswerving
- unturned
- unvarnished
- unwary
- upright
- vertical
- well-defined
- work
Take note, take note, O world,
To be direct and honest is not safe.
The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct.
