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downright
adjective
- Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer
2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter
2.
Informal: flat-out, positive.
Chiefly British: blooming. See
big, limited
- Manifesting honesty and directness, especially in speech: candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, ingenuous, man-to-man, open, plainspoken, straight, straightforward, straight-out, unreserved.
Informal: straight-from-the-shoulder, straight-shooting. See
clear, show
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