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English Dictionary: downright	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for downright
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
downright adv thoroughgoing; "he is outright dishonest" adj characterized by plain blunt honesty; "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person" 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" Synonym(s): absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Downright \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Downright \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.