downright
About 1.42 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb Completely, wholly.
He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude.
- adverb Completely, wholly.
He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude.
- adverb Of acts or speech: directly and unambiguously; clearly, plainly.
- adverb Straight down; perpendicularly. Immediately at that place and time; without delay; altogether, at once, then and there.
- adverb Straight down; perpendicularly.
- adverb Immediately at that place and time; without delay; altogether, at once, then and there.
- adjective Absolute, complete.
- adjective Absolute, complete.
Similar words
right-down out-and-out honest rank honorable complete absolute sheer directly flatly
Often followed by
dangerous hostile and impossible silly rude bad ugly hostility lies
Word family
downrightly downrightness downrightnesses
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