Usually means: Completely; absolutely; utterly; thoroughly; totally.
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  1. downright: Merriam-Webster
  2. downright: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. downright: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. downright: Collins English Dictionary
  5. downright: Vocabulary.com
  6. Downright, downright: Wordnik
  7. downright: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. downright: Wiktionary
  9. downright: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. downright: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. downright: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Downright, downright: Dictionary.com
  13. downright: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Downright: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. downright: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. downright: Rhymezone
  17. downright: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. downright: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Downright: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. downright: FreeDictionary.org
  21. downright: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. downright: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. downright: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downright: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downright: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downright: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (downright)

▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Directed vertically; coming straight down.
▸ adjective:  Directly to the point; plain
▸ adjective:  Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.
▸ adjective:  Complete; absolute
▸ adverb:  Really; actually; quite; wholly.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Straight down; perpendicularly.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Plainly, unambiguously; directly.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Without delay; at once.

Similar:
right-down, out-and-out, rank, honest, honorable, complete, absolute, sheer, up and down, straight, more...

Opposite:
insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical, dishonest, deceitful, dishonorable

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direct, indirect, indirectly, more...

Phrases:
downright nasty, downright mean, downright risque, more...

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Similar:
right-down, out-and-out, rank, honest, honorable, complete, absolute, sheer, up and down, straight, more...

Opposite:
insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical, dishonest, deceitful, dishonorable

Types:
direct, indirect, indirectly, more...

Phrases:
downright nasty, downright mean, downright risque, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     onyx,     graphite, more...



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