Definition of Directly

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Directly

In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.

Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.

Exactly; just.

Straightforwardly; honestly.

Manifestly; openly.

Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.

Immediately after; as soon as.

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Directly Quotations

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.
Mike Ditka

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Directly Translations

directly in Afrikaans is regop
directly in Dutch is direct, overeind, rechtop
directly in French is directement, debout
directly in German is geradewegs, direkt
directly in Portuguese is diretamente
directly in Spanish is seguido
directly in Swedish is direkt, strax, rakt

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