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2 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: downrightness n : the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness" [syn: {straightforwardness}]
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