Down"right` (?), adv.
1.
Straight down; perpendicularly.
2.
In plain terms; without ceremony.
We shall chide downright, id I longer stay.
Shak.
3.
Without delay; at once; completely.
[Obs.]
She fell downright into a fit.
Arbuthnot.
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Down"right`, a.
1.
Plain; direct; 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.
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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