directly

B1Frequent NGSL-2
UK /dəˈrektli/US /dəˈrektli/

Meaning

adverb
without stopping or changing direction
The path leads directly to the river.

Real video examples

From real subtitles in LingoTube lessons

that are so vastly intelligent, we ought to be wired directly to them

📺 Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)Learn this word in the video →

who's also directly uh the CEO of the

📺 Joe Tsai Co-founder & Chair of AlibabaLearn this word in the video →

And as he notes in his company's latest annual report, of the 452 goals that Amazon.com has set for itself this year, 360 of them will directly affect the customer experience.

📺 Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton UniversityLearn this word in the video →

Remember directly through real videos

LingoTube turns TED / YouTube videos into sentence-by-sentence bilingual lessons: synced subtitles, tap any word for meaning and pronunciation, save to your word bank with spaced repetition.

that are so vastly intelligent, we ought to be wired directly to them

directly·
Learn "directly" in a video →

Free to try, no sign-up needed

directly: meaning, pronunciation & real video examples | LingoTube