Usually means: Without intermediaries, in a straight line.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word directly:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. directly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. directly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. directly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. directly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. directly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Directly, directly: Wordnik
  7. directly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. directly: Wiktionary
  9. directly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. directly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. directly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Directly, directly: Dictionary.com
  13. directly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Directly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. directly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. directly: Rhymezone
  17. directly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. directly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. directly: Free Dictionary
  20. directly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. directly: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. directly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. directly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. directly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
adverb:  In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary but by direct means.
adverb:  Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
adverb:  Exactly; just; at the shortest possible distance.
adverb:  Straightforwardly; honestly.
adverb:  (dated) Immediately.
adverb:  (chiefly dated or dialect, including Midlands, Cornwall, Southern US) Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.

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