What are the antonyms for DIRECTNESS?
- tact, deceit, shyness, inhibition, difficulty, unintelligiblity, communism, indirectness, inaccuracy, captivity, obscurity, imprisonment, ambiguity, deception, imprecision, slavery, falsehood, circuitousness, dissimulation, subjection, complication, dirtiness, secretiveness, government, restraint, difficultness, inexactness, incarceration, servitude, unfairness, indirection, artifice, diplomacy, evasiveness, guile, dishonesty, suppression, reticence, restriction, dissembling, lying, subordination, complexity, limitation, confinement, reserve, humility.
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Synonyms for DIRECTNESS
- restraint,
- unity,
- innocence,
- flatness,
- Elegancy,
- Manifestness,
- uniformity,
- plain words,
- legibility,
- monotony,
- understandability,
- unreservedness,
- outspokenness,
- freedom,
- linearity,
- perceptibility,
- diction,
- articulation,
- genuineness,
- vernacular,
- common speech,
- plainness,
- lack of restraint,
- brazenness,
- ease,
- sincerity,
- obviousness,
- gracefulness,
- certainty,
- artlessness,
- classicism,
- naivete,
- exactness,
- soberness,
- chasteness,
- fairness,
- structure,
- disrespect,
- coherence,
- brusqueness,
- impertinence,
- unsophistication,
- openheartedness,
- matter-of-factness,
- prominence,
- felicity,
- correctness,
- pellucidity,
- propriety,
- salience,
- straight line,
- uprightness,
- spareness,
- naturalness,
- comeliness,
- taste,
- fittingness,
- Gracility,
- Bee line,
- bluntness,
- unequivocalness,
- perspicuousness,
- exactitude,
- smoothness,
- fair-mindedness,
- callowness,
- facility,
- clearness,
- crispness,
- plain speech,
- Lucidness,
- Familiarity,
- trustfulness,
- appropriateness,
- single-mindedness,
- simplemindedness,
- candidness,
- forwardness,
- candor,
- veracity,
- limpidity,
- naivety,
- comprehensibility,
- Classicalism,
- straightforwardness,
- lack of reserve,
- laxity,
- refinement,
- household words,
- prosiness,
- ordinariness,
- simplicity,
- directness,
- starkness,
- decipherability,
- roundness,
- forthrightness,
- unguardedness,
- heterosexualism,
- plain-spokenness,
- trust,
- impartiality,
- purity,
- connectedness,
- austerity,
- tangibility,
- openness,
- felicitousness,
- finish,
- immediacy,
- lack of adornment,
- tastefulness,
- folksiness,
- polish,
- naiveness,
- frankness,
- unrestraint,
- guilelessness,
- pellucidness,
- Rectilinearity,
- fluency,
- accuracy,
- lucidity,
- unassumingness,
- good taste,
- Freeness,
- intelligibility,
- clean lines,
- eloquence,
- singleness of heart,
- unambiguity,
- precision,
- severity,
- informality,
- horizontalness,
- explicability,
- Freedoms,
- penetrability,
- presumption,
- explicitness,
- childlikeness,
- Lineality,
- Unambiguousness,
- transparency,
- homogeneity,
- palpability,
- simpleness,
- inflexibility,
- modesty,
- un-artificiality,
- license,
- prosaicness,
- bareness,
- perspicuity,
- conspicuousness,
- broadness,
- elegance,
- unwariness,
- easiness,
- unartfulness,
- homespun,
- plainspokenness,
- unconstraint,
- distinction,
- straightness,
- plumb line,
- integrity,
- crystallinity,
- sophistication artlessness,
- baldness,
- grace,
- Limpidness,
- singleness,
- ingenuousness,
- probity,
- articulateness,
- glasnost,
- cognizability,
- good faith,
- distinctness,
- heterosexuality,
- chastity,
- truthfulness,
- succinctness,
- definition,
- stiffness,
- boldness,
- candour,
- honesty,
- overtness,
- abandon,
- Unreserve,
- clarity,
- flow,
- seemliness,
- brightness,
- terseness,
- Elementariness,
- verticalness,
- single-heartedness,
- unaffectedness,
- enunciation,
- Classicality,
- perpendicularity,
- evidence,
- casualness,
- spontaneity,
- overfamiliarity,
- plumpness,
- leanness,
- neatness,
- readiness,
- discrimination,
- primitiveness,
- unpretentiousness,
- bluffness,
- consistency,
- unmistakability,
- dignity.
Usage Examples for DIRECTNESS
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" I am sure- I don't know what to say, Mr. Juxon," she answered, somewhat startled by the directness of his speech. - "A Tale of a Lonely Parish" by F. Marion Crawford
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Its economy and directness parallel the style of Tom Lea's drawings and paintings, with which both books are illustrated. - "Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest" by J. Frank Dobie
