straightway

1. 1.

   at once

   “straightway the clouds began to scatter”
2. 2.

   in a direct course

   “plunged straightway to the rocks below”

Questions about straightway

What does straightway mean?

straightway means "at once". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in straightway?

straightway has 2 syllables and divides as straigh-tway under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is straightway a common word?

straightway is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.