Category:Downright

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.

downright 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.