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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. characterized by plain blunt honesty;
- Example: "a downright answer"
- Example: "a downright kind of person"

2. 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. thoroughgoing;
- Example: "he is outright dishonest"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Downright \Down"right`\, adv.
   1. Straight down; perpendicularly.
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   2. In plain terms; without ceremony.
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            We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. --Shak.
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   3. Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.]
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            She fell downright into a fit.        --Arbuthnot.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Downright \Down"right`\, a.
   1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive;
      as, he spoke in his downright way.
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            A man of plain, downright character.  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as,
      downright atheism.

   Syn: honest-to-goodness. [1913 Webster]

              The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
                                                  --South.
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              Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright
              insanity.                           --Prescott.
        -- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

downright
    adv 1: thoroughgoing; "he is outright dishonest"
    adj 1: characterized by plain blunt honesty; "a downright
           answer"; "a downright kind of person"
    2: 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)]