directly

With no other person, thing, or step between.

• Please contact me directly.
• The changes directly affected our team.
• She buys vegetables directly from the farmer.

How to use it: directly from/to someone/something (We sent the payment directly to the seller.)

Similar words: without an intermediary

Opposites: indirectly

Common phrases: directly affect, directly involved, directly to someone, deal directly

Straight to a place, without turning aside or stopping elsewhere.

• She went directly home.
• We drove directly to the airport.
• Walk directly ahead until you reach the gate.

How to use it: directly to somewhere (He went directly to the station.)

Similar words: straight

Common phrases: directly home, directly to something, go directly

As soon as something happens or finishes.

• I will call directly I arrive.
• She left directly the meeting ended.
• Come upstairs directly you have finished eating.

How to use it: directly + clause (We will leave directly the rain stops.)

Similar words: as soon as

Common phrases: directly someone arrives, directly something happens