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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