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[ adverb ] (intensifier) thoroughgoing
Examples "he is outright dishonest" Used in print (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)No one can deny that these `` back_door '' admissions to membership provisions have been seriously abused nor that they have not resulted in the admission of downright incompetents to membership in supposedly learned societies . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)You have unwittingly set_in_motion forces so malign , so vindictive , that it would be downright inhumane of me not to warn you about them . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] characterized by plain blunt honesty
Examples "a downright answer" "a downright kind of person" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Synonyms Examples "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 jo Related terms |
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[ adjective ] complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Synonyms Examples "absolute freedom" "a downright lie" "out-and-out mayhem" "a rank outsider" "many right-down vices" "sheer stupidity" Related terms |
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