"downright" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈdaʊnˌɹaɪt/ Forms: more downright [comparative], most downright [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English dounright, dounriȝt, equivalent to down- + right. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|dounright}} Middle English dounright, {{m|enm|dounriȝt}} dounriȝt, {{prefix|en|down|right}} down- + right Head templates: {{en-adj}} downright (comparative more downright, superlative most downright)
  1. (obsolete) Directed vertically; coming straight down. Tags: obsolete
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  2. Directly to the point; plain Synonyms: unambiguous, unevasive
    Sense id: en-downright-en-adj-RszNaarq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English intensifiers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 11 21 0 22 12 13 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 14 25 0 26 9 12 4 Disambiguation of English intensifiers: 13 11 21 0 23 12 17 3
  3. Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.
    Sense id: en-downright-en-adj-hoflUSGD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English intensifiers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 11 21 0 22 12 13 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 14 25 0 26 9 12 4 Disambiguation of English intensifiers: 13 11 21 0 23 12 17 3
  4. Complete; absolute Synonyms: utter
    Sense id: en-downright-en-adj-2HCoCPGe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: right-down, evendown Derived forms: downrightness

Adverb

IPA: /ˈdaʊnˌɹaɪt/
Etymology: From Middle English dounright, dounriȝt, equivalent to down- + right. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|dounright}} Middle English dounright, {{m|enm|dounriȝt}} dounriȝt, {{prefix|en|down|right}} down- + right Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} downright (not comparable)
  1. Really; actually; quite; wholly. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: outright, thoroughly, utterly, completely Translations (really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly): съвсем (sǎvsem) (Bulgarian), напълно (napǎlno) (Bulgarian), regelrecht (Dutch), gewoonweg (Dutch), suorastaan (Finnish), vraiment (French), carrément (French), geradezu (German), egyenesen (Hungarian), kimondottan (Hungarian), dichtich (Plautdietsch), wręcz (Polish), de-a dreptul (Romanian), düpedüz (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-downright-en-adv-U5D13prC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English intensifiers, English terms prefixed with down- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 11 21 0 22 12 13 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 14 25 0 26 9 12 4 Disambiguation of English intensifiers: 13 11 21 0 23 12 17 3 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with down-: 22 8 9 1 24 20 6 8 Disambiguation of 'really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly': 94 1 2 2
  2. (obsolete) Straight down; perpendicularly. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-downright-en-adv-L4VWQSSG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English intensifiers, English terms prefixed with down- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 11 21 0 22 12 13 5 Disambiguation of English intensifiers: 13 11 21 0 23 12 17 3 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with down-: 22 8 9 1 24 20 6 8
  3. (obsolete) Plainly, unambiguously; directly. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-downright-en-adv-F4FHztxj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English intensifiers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 11 21 0 22 12 13 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 14 25 0 26 9 12 4 Disambiguation of English intensifiers: 13 11 21 0 23 12 17 3
  4. (obsolete) Without delay; at once. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-downright-en-adv--fErO7Jw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: right-down

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        "(obsolete) Directed vertically; coming straight down."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, George Witton, chapter 5, in Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant’s Bushveldt Carbineers",
          "text": "There were miners from Klondyke, hunters from the backwoods, troopers from the Northwest Frontier Police, and included were some of the “hardest cases” that the land of the maple leaf ever produced; these were past-masters in the use of unique expletives, and for downright and original profanity it would hardly be possible to find their equal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1920, Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Translator’s Note,\nEnglish words and thought seem too downright a medium into which to render these evanescent, half-expressed sentences and poems—vague as the misty mountain scenery of her country, with no pronouns at all, and without verb inflections."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Directly to the point; plain"
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          "plain"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "unambiguous"
        },
        {
          "word": "unevasive"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 396,\nIt bears the evident marks of having originally been, what the honest and downright Doctor Douglass assures us it was, a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat their creditors."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Emily Carr, chapter 3, in Klee Wyck",
          "text": "The twisted trees and high tossed driftwood hinted that Skedans could be as thoroughly fierce as she was calm. She was downright about everything.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "blunt",
          "blunt"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, London: Seeley, published 1903",
          "text": "The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Complete; absolute"
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        ]
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        {
          "word": "utter"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaʊnˌɹaɪt/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "right-down"
    },
    {
      "word": "evendown"
    }
  ],
  "word": "downright"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English intensifiers",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃reǵ-",
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    "English terms prefixed with down-",
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      "name": "root"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "dounriȝt"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "text": "He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude."
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        {
          "ref": "1716, Joseph Addison, The Drummer; or, The Haunted House, London: Jacob Tonson, act I, scene 1, page 8",
          "text": "Familiar! Madam, in Troth he’s down-right rude.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 6, Letter 31, p. 208",
          "text": "And, dear Lady G. he downright kissed me—My lip; and not my cheek—and in so fervent a way",
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        "Really; actually; quite; wholly."
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        {
          "word": "outright"
        },
        {
          "word": "thoroughly"
        },
        {
          "word": "utterly"
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        {
          "word": "completely"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Straight down; perpendicularly."
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        "(obsolete) Straight down; perpendicularly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
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      "glosses": [
        "Plainly, unambiguously; directly."
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        "(obsolete) Plainly, unambiguously; directly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without delay; at once."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) Without delay; at once."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaʊnˌɹaɪt/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "right-down"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎvsem",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "съвсем"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "napǎlno",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "напълно"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "regelrecht"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "gewoonweg"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "suorastaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "vraiment"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "carrément"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "geradezu"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "egyenesen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "kimondottan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "dichtich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "wręcz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "de-a dreptul"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly",
      "word": "düpedüz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "downright"
}

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