DOWNRIGHT

adv. a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
adv.

Straight down; perpendicularly.

2.
adv.

In plain terms; without ceremony. We shall chide downright, id I longer stay. Shak.

3.
adv.

Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.] She fell downright into a fit. Arbuthnot.

4.
a.

Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. A man of plain, downright character. Sir W. Scott.

5.
a.

Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism. The downright impossibilities charged upon it. South. Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity. Prescott. -- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.

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