downright

Adverb
  1. Thoroughgoing (synset 400098072)
    "he is outright dishonest"
    domain usage: intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
Adjective
  1. Characterized by plain blunt honesty (synset 301225393)
    "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person"
    similar to: honest, honorable - not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
  2. Complete and without restriction or qualification;
    Sometimes used informally as intensifiers (synset 300522835)
    "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"
    similar to: complete - having every necessary or normal part or component or step
    same as: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer

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