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What is the adjective for straightened?

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

straight
  1. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length. [from 14th c.]
    1. Of a path, trajectory, etc.: direct, undeviating. [from 15th c.]
    2. Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique. [from 17th c.]
    3. (obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended. [15th-16th c.]
  2. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
  3. Figurative uses.
    1. Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding. [from 16th c.]
    2. Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward. [from 19th c.]
    3. In a row, in unbroken sequence. [from 19th c.]
    4. In proper order; as it should be. [from 19th c.]
    5. Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat. [from 19th c.]
    6. (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets. [from 19th c.]
    7. (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set. [from 19th c.]
    8. (politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
    9. (politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others.
  4. Colloquial uses.
    1. (colloquial) Conventional, mainstream, socially acceptable. [from 20th c.]
    2. (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc. [from 20th c.]
  5. (mathematics) concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic)
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Two cars start off at the same point on a straight highway facing opposite directions.”
      “Her eyes were drawn to a tall, straight pole situated halfway down the avenue.”
      “The bed, covered in straight sheets of glinting polythene, is on the other side of the studio.”
straightedge
straightaway
  1. extending into the distance in a straight line.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After finishing the project, she received straightaway praise from her boss.”
      “After making a left turn, she found herself back on the straightaway road leading to the highway.”
straightenable
  1. Capable of being straightened.
straightish
  1. Reasonably straight.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It was her mother who broke the deadlock and marched her over to a beauty school to have the stylists turn her straightish hair into an Afro.”
      “I think he genuinely doesn't understand why a nice straightish boy like me wants to go to gay clubs anyway.”
      “It was her mother who broke the deadlock and marched her over to the Beauty School to have the renowned stylists turn her straightish hair into an Afro.”
straicht
  1. (Scotland) Straight.
straightest
  1. superlative form of straight: most straight
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Dean, who sells himself as the presidential campaign's straightest shooter, is starting to throw voters some curves.”
      “If you vent the exhaust outside, use the straightest and shortest metal duct available.”
      “Paul was what we called a straight arrow, maybe the straightest I have ever known.”
straighted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of straight
straighting
  1. present participle of straight
straightened
straightening
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