Down·right, a.
1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
A man of plain, downright character. --Sir W. Scott.
2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
Syn: -- honest-to-goodness.
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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downrightness
n : the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some
people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness"
[syn: straightforwardness]