directly

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/daɪˈrɛktli/, /dɪˈrɛktli/

US:USA pronunciation: IPAUSA pronunciation: IPA/dɪˈrɛktli, daɪ-/

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(di rekt′lē, dī-)


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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
directly adv (straight)directamente adv
 Make sure you come directly home from school; don't go to your friends' houses or the park on the way.
 Asegúrate de venir directamente a casa del colegio; no vayas a casa de tus amigos ni al parque de camino.
directly adv (in a straightforward way)directamente adv
  con franqueza loc adv
 The politician amazed the interviewer by answering the question directly.
 El político sorprendió al entrevistador respondiendo directamente la pregunta.
 El político sorprendió al entrevistador respondiendo con franqueza la pregunta.
directly adv UK, regional, informal (very soon, shortly)inmediatamente adv
  ya adv
 I'll come over to see you directly.
 Me paso inmediatamente a verte.
 Me paso ya a verte.
directly adv (just, immediately)justo adv
  inmediatamente adv
 Witnesses claimed that directly before the accident, the driver had been talking on his mobile phone.
 Los testigos afirmaban que justo antes del accidente el conductor estaba hablando por el móvil.
directly adv (at once)inmediatamente adv
  en un segundo loc adv
 When he got the phone call, Mark left the meeting directly and didn't come back.
 Cuando recibió la llamada telefónica, Mark se fue de la reunión inmediatamente y no volvió.
directly conj UK (as soon as)en cuanto loc conj
  tan pronto como loc conj
  (informal)nomás conj
 To reassure my mother, I phoned her directly I got home.
  Is something important missing? Report an error or suggest an improvement.

WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
directly proportional adj (corresponding in measure)directamente proporcional loc adv
 Distance and time are directly proportional when speed is constant: driving for two hours gets you twice as far away as one hour would.
  Is something important missing? Report an error or suggest an improvement.

'directly' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
In the English description:
antipodal - baldly - bang - bipolar - cash in hand - come on the heels of - dead ahead - direct - direct report - ex works - expressly - firsthand - firsthand knowledge - from the horse's mouth - full - get to the point - go live - grill - grilled - hardwire - hardwired - head straight for - head-on - implicit - in a straight line - in the face - index-linked - lineal - look in the eye - make a beeline for - make eye contact - man to man - meet - nadir - oblique - permanent employment - person-to-person - plain speaking - plainly - plump - point blank - polar - polar opposite - right - rotary engine - slap bang - smack - smack into - squarely - stovepipe
Spanish:
directamente - frontalmente - a quemarropa - de lleno - en carne propia - enseguida - en primera persona - imprimir directamente - seguido - sin ambages - trabajar de cara al público

Collocations: [come, return, go] directly [home, to work, to school], spoke directly to me, looked directly at me, more...

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