Meaning

Completely, wholly..

Definitions by Sense

1. Completely, wholly.
2. Of acts or speech: directly and unambiguously; clearly, plainly.
3. Straight down; perpendicularly.
4. Immediately at that place and time; without delay; altogether, at once, then and there.
5. Absolute, complete.
6. Of a person or their behaviour: direct, plain, straightforward; also, of speech: direct and unambiguous; blunt, to the point.
7. Coming straight down; directed vertically.
8. Chiefly in downright money: in its most basic form; ordinary.

Example Sentences

He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude.

VVe vvere deſcried, theyle mock vs novv dounright.

VVhat then are thoſe monſtrous Extravagancies in your deportment to all perſons of vvhat quality ſoever? […] VVhich bold and impudent cuſtome, unleſs you vvere dovvn-right mad, you could never have taken up of your ſelves. VVherefore certainly ſome very vvaggiſh Maſter of the Ceremonies has taught you this ill manners, like him that inſtructed the Sheriff to keep on his Hat vvhen he accoſted the King.

Familiar! Madam, in Troth he's dovvn-right rude.

If my friend had not given me the hint, damn me if I ſhou'd not think her dovvn right angry.

The pure Drummond product, the four-cylinder 4-6-0 as built for the London & South Western, was a less successful design, and some of the specimens were downright bad.

Ros[alind]. Not true in loue? / Cel[ia]. Yes, vvhen he is in, but I thinke he is not in. / Ros. You haue heard him ſvveare dovvnright he vvas.

VVell, 'tis not my Buſineſs to quarrel vvith her dovvn[-]right.

Word Forms

• more downright
• most downright
• downrights

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Use downright when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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