The adjective downright is used to emphasize something, or to mean "utterly." For example, you could say that your brother's loud and junky old car is a downright embarrassment.
Straight down; perpendicularly.
Adjective S.
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job
Adjective S.
characterized by plain blunt honesty; "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person"
Adverb
thoroughgoing; "he is outright dishonest"
adv.
Straight down; perpendicularly.
adv.
In plain terms; without ceremony.
adv.
Without delay; at once; completely.
a.
Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he
spoke in his downright way.
a.
Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as,
downright atheism.
Downright
We shall chide downright, id I longer stay.3.
She fell downright into a fit.
Downright
A man of plain, downright character.2.
The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity.--
Straight down; perpendicularly.
Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive;
Usage Examples
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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Other Usage ExamplesGuard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.
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