Meaning of DOWNRIGHT
| Pronunciation: | | 'dawn`rIt
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- [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"
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DOWNRIGHT is a 9 letter word that starts with D. |
| | Synonyms: | | absolute, complete, honest, honorable, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a) |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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