Definitions for downright
ˈdaʊnˌraɪtdown·right

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. downrightadjective

   characterized by plain blunt honesty

   "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person"

2. absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)adverb

   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 through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"

3. downrightadverb

   thoroughgoing

   "he is outright dishonest"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. downrightadverb

   Really; actually; quite; thoroughly; utterly.

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

2. downrightadjective

   Directed vertically; coming straight down.

3. downrightadjective

   Directly to the point; plain; unambiguous; unevasive.

4. downrightadjective

   Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.

5. downrightadjective

   Complete; absolute; utter.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Downrightadjective

   1. Plain; open; apparent; undisguised.

   An admonition from a dead author, or a caveat from an impartial pen, will prevail more than a downright advice, which may be mistaken as spoken magisterially. Francis Bacon.

   It is downright madness to strike where we have no power to hurt. Roger L'Estrange, Fab. 44.

   Religion seems not in danger from downright atheism, since rational men must reject that for want of proof. John Rogers, Serm.

   The merchant’s wife, who abounds in plenty, is not to have downright money; but the mercenary part of her mind is engaged with a present of plate. Spectator, №. 266.

   2. Directly tending to the point; plain; artless.

   I would rather have a plain downright wisdom, than a foolish and affected eloquence. Ben Jonson, Discoveries.

   3. Unceremonious; honestly surly.

   When it came to the count to speak, old fact so stared him in the face, after his plain downright way, that the count was struck dumb. Joseph Addison, Count Tariff.

   4. Plain; without palliation.

   The idolatry was direct and downright in the people, whose credulity is illimitable. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 4.

2. Downrightadverb

   Etymology: down and right.

   1. Strait or right down; down perpendicularly.

   A giant’s slain in sight,
   Or mow’d o’erthwart, or cleft downright. Hudibras, p. i.

   2. In plain terms; without ceremony.

   Elves away;
   We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. William Shakespeare.

   3. Completely; without stopping short.

   This paper put Mrs. Bull in such a passion, that she fell downright into a fit. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Downrightadverb

   straight down; perpendicularly

2. Downrightadverb

   in plain terms; without ceremony

3. Downrightadverb

   without delay; at once; completely

4. Downrightadjective

   plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way

5. Downrightadjective

   open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of downright in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of downright in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of downright in a Sentence

1. Janos Lazar:

   For me as a voter it is downright irritating that a diplomat should come here and tell us how to live or how our voters should live.

2. George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron:

   When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

3. John Adams:

   Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.

4. Patrick Henry:

   Guard 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.

5. Mark Twain:

   A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

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