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/dˈaʊnrˌaɪt/ Listen

adverb

Downright adv.

Straight down; perpendicularly.

In plain terms; without ceremony. "We shall chide downright, if I longer stay."

Without delay; at once; completely. (Obs.) "She fell downright into a fit."

adjective

Downright adj.

Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. "A man of plain, downright character."

Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.

Synonyms: honest-to-goodness. "The downright impossibilities charged upon it." "Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity."

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Etymology of 'Downright'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Downright" Quotes from Famous Books

... especially during the last two years. He seems to have drawn away from all of us, to live altogether too absorbed and self-contained a life for a man who has great ambitions to realize, or who is in downright earnest about ...

— A Lost Leader • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... me that you were a bold man with women, and I know that at least that part of what you said was untrue, for you are a bashful man, John, you are downright bashful. It is I who have been bold. You were too timid to woo me, and I so longed for ...

— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major

... without a tie of sympathy or common interest to link them each to the other. She was by nature blythe; a thing of sunshine, flowers and music, who craved a very poet for her lover; and by "a poet" I mean not your mere rhymer. He was downright stolid and stupid under his fine exterior; the worst type of Briton, without the saving grace of a Briton's honor. And so she had wearied him, who saw in her no more than a sweet loveliness that had cloyed him presently. ...

— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini

... lot of young nonsense!" His anger was mounting. "You can understand here as well as later that I am not going to answer any of it; and I'll not listen to a great deal more. Sometimes, lately, you have been insulting, but now you are downright pathetic, you are ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

... dear Lady Betty,' said Flora, 'may, I conceive, persevere in his suit under very discouraging circumstances. Affection can (now and then) withstand very severe storms of rigour, but not a long polar frost of downright indifference. Don't, even with YOUR attractions, try the experiment upon any lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but ...

— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott

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