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Thesaurus: downright

Straight down; perpendicularly.

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  1. adv. Straight down; perpendicularly.
  2. adv. In plain terms; without ceremony.
  3. adv. Without delay; at once; completely.
  4. a. Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
  5. a. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
  6. adj. characterized by plain blunt honesty
  7. adj. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
  8. adv. thoroughgoing
  9. r:81/j:19 s. characterized by plain blunt honesty r. thoroughgoing