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Downright

Downright Meaning & Definition
Downright Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Downright?

[adv] (intensifier) thoroughgoing; "he is outright dishonest"
[adj] complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
[adj] characterized by plain blunt honesty; "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Downright: absolute | complete | honest | honorable | out-and-out(a) | rank(a) | right-down | sheer(a)

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Downright In Webster's Dictionary

\Down"right`\, adv. 1. Straight down; perpendicularly. 2. In plain terms; without ceremony. We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. --Shak. 3. Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.] She fell downright into a fit. --Arbuthnot.
\Down"right`\, a. 1. Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. A man of plain, downright character. --Sir W. Scott. 2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism. The downright impossibilities charged upon it. --South. Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity. --Prescott. -- {Down"right`ly}, adv. -- {Down"right`ness}, n.

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