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3 definitions found 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. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: downright 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}, {out-and-out(a)}, {rank(a)}, {right-down}, {sheer(a)}] adv : (intensifier) thoroughgoing; "he is outright dishonest"
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