1. straightaway - Noun
2. straightaway - Adjective
3. straightaway - Adverb
4. straightaway - Adjective Satellite
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
performed with little or no delay
Source: WordNetUsually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't. Anne Dudley
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship. Peter Ustinov
All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure Faith, and at leisure once is he Straightaway he wants to be busy. Robert Browning
Like many people, I was an ardent admirer of Theodore Roosevelt. ...He had recommended to the people Jacob Riis's book How the Other Half Lives. I had read it, and Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural address of 1905, and had straightaway felt that the pursuit of social justice would be my vocation. Frances Perkins
he answered immediately Source: Internet