downright

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - adjective

1. characterized by plain blunt honesty
- a downright answer
- a downright kind of person
• Similar to:
honest, honorable
• Derivationally related forms:
downrightness
2. 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
• Syn:
absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer
• Similar to:
complete
• Derivationally related forms:
absoluteness (for: absolute)

II - adverb

thoroughgoing (Freq. 3)
- he is outright dishonest
• Usage Domain:
intensifier, intensive

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  absolute, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)