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What is the adjective for directs?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb direct which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

direct
  1. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
  2. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
  3. Straightforward; sincere.
  4. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
  5. In the line of descent; not collateral.
  6. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
  7. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
  8. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “It's time to stop pussyfooting around and to start being direct about your feelings.”
      “Michael De Santa decided to take the direct route to get to his shrink, even if it meant driving through bumpy hills, white picket fences and green manicured lawns.”
      “Try as I might, I could not find a direct flight from Australia to France.”
directed
  1. In a manner emphasizing one's point of view.
  2. (graph theory) Having the properties of a directed graph.
  3. (set theory) Having the properties of a directed set.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Route reconnaissance is a directed effort to obtain detailed information of a specified route and all terrain from which the enemy could influence movement along that route.”
      “We measured the angular distribution of the directed beam and found that it differed from the distribution typical of Cheremkov radiation.”
directive
directorial
  1. Of or pertaining to a director
  2. Of or pertaining to administration or to a directorate
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “These scenes play as either unintentionally hilarious lapses of directorial judgment or sharp send-ups of phony spiritual experiences.”
      “He's 72 now, and there's a certain cussedness to his bone-dry directorial style that suggests it's a job he should now do less.”
      “In his directorial debut, he tries gamely to spice up the plotless proceedings by color-coding the different key stories.”
directory
directer
directionless
  1. Lacking direction; aimless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The drunkard fathers, violence, poverty, promiscuity, and lack of values and guidance leave these children directionless.”
      “They argue that democracy is messy, slow and directionless, and politicians to the last man are undisciplined, incompetent and corrupt.”
      “He lives a directionless existence, mostly cotching with his equally unremarkable friends.”
directorly
  1. Characteristic of a director.
directorish
  1. Characteristic of a director.
directoryless
  1. (computing) Without directories.
directorless
  1. Without a director.
directest
directing
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