downright
Adjective Satellite
- characterized by plain blunt honesty
- "a downright answer"
- "a downright kind of person"
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- "a downright lie"
Adverb
- thoroughgoing
Adj
- Directed vertically; coming straight down.
- Directly to the point; plain
- Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.
- Complete; absolute
Adv
- Really; actually; quite; wholly.
- Straight down; perpendicularly.
- Plainly, unambiguously; directly.
- Without delay; at once.
Examples
- He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English dounright, dounriȝt, equivalent to down- + right.
Synonyms
absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer, absolutely, all the way, all-out, altogether, and barrel, and sinker, at large, at length, cap-a-pie, categorically, completely, detailly, downright, entirely, evendown, exhaustively, finally, first and last, flat out, flat-out, from A to Z, from aardvark to zymurgy, from head to toe, from soup to nuts, from stem to stern, from the rooter to the tooter, from top to bottom, from top to toe, fully, head to foot, head to tail, head to toe, heartily, hook, in detail, in full, line, lock, one hundred percent, out and out, outright, particularly, perfectly, plumb, purely, quite, right, root and branch, soundly, soup-to-nuts, stock, thoroughly, through and through, to the bone, to the core, to the full, top to tail, top to toe, totally, totes, unambiguous, unevasive, utter, utterly, well and truly, whole, whole cloth, wholly
Scrabble Score: 17
downright: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddownright: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
downright: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary