Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
complete and without restriction or qualification;
sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
- Example: "absolute freedom"- Example: "an absolute dimwit"- Example: "a downright lie"- Example: "out-and-out mayhem"- Example: "an out-and-out lie"- Example: "a rank outsider"- Example: "many right-down vices"- Example: "got the job through sheer persistence"- Example: "sheer stupidity"[syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)]
ADVERB (1)
1. positively;
- Example: "a regular right-down bad 'un"--Charles Dickens
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
right-down
adv 1: positively; "a regular right-down bad 'un"--Charles
Dickens
adj 1: 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" [syn: absolute,
downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down,
sheer(a)]