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direct-message

direct-message is the alternative form of direct message.

Meaning of direct message

Verb

direct message (third-person singular simple present direct messages, present participle direct messaging, simple past and past participle direct messaged)

  1. (Internet, transitive) Synonym of private message.
    • And just last week, I gave my partner the silent treatment for not answering me after five minutes. On social media, all I seem to do is hard-block people left and right, foregoing the soft-block altogether. If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my...2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”...
    Synonyms:
    DM, private message

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Forms of direct-message

third-person singular presentdirect-messages
present participledirect-messaging
past participledirect-messaged
pastdirect-messaged

Questions about direct-message

What is direct-message the alternative form of?
Direct-message is the alternative form of direct message.

Words near direct-message in the dictionary

  1. direct tax
  2. direct taxes
  3. direct verb
  4. direct verbs
  5. direct-inverse marking
  6. direct-message
  7. direct-messaged
  8. direct-messages
  9. direct-messaging
  10. direct-to-cell
  11. direct-to-cellphone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: direct-message (page history and authors); direct message (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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