downright

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Examples of downright in a sentence

• The pure Drummond product, the four-cylinder 4-6-0 as built for the London & South Western, was a less successful design, and some of the specimens were downright bad.1955 January, John W. Grant, “The Scottish Contribution”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:
• Halkett, […] told him downright that he had assisted at many weddings, but he had never the pleasure of supporting such a thorough "carry-me-out-and-bury-me-decently" looking article before.1865, Florence Marryat, “The Happy Day”, in “Too Good for Him.” […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 78–79:
• Stubb and Flask looked sideways from him; the honest eye of Starbuck fell downright.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Quarter-deck”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper &...
• The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring.1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter I, in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes […], London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, […], →OCLC, page 1:

All 40 example sentences with downright

Synonyms of downright

• absolutely
• entirely
• outright
• positively
• right-down
• thoroughly
• utterly
• all-out
• tout à fait
• all the way

All synonyms of downright

Forms of downright

Origin of downright

The adverb is derived from Middle English dounright, dounriȝt (“right down, straight down; face down; vertically; used for emphasis: outright, downright”), and then either: * possibly an aphetic form of adounright (“straight down; directly, immediately (?)”), from adoun (“downward”, adverb) (from Old English adūn, adūne (“down, downward”, adverb), ultimately from dūn (“hill, mountain”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūnā, *dūnu (“hill; sand dune”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“haze, mist; smoke”)) + right (“direct; straight; etc.”, adjective) (from Old English riht (“straight; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”)); or * from doun (“down, downward; etc.”, adverb) (from Old English dūne (“down”), ultimately from dūn (“hill, mountain”): see above) + right. By surface analysis, down (adverb) + right (adjective). The adjective and noun are derived from the adverb. Noun sense 1 (“low grade of wool”) may be from the obsolete adjective sense 2.2 (“in its most basic form; ordinary”).

Words formed from downright

• downrightly
• downrightness

Questions about downright

What does downright mean?

Downright means completely, wholly.

What is downright in Hindi?

Downright in Hindi is एकदम (ekdam). See Downright meaning in Hindi.

How do you use downright in a sentence?

The pure Drummond product, the four-cylinder 4-6-0 as built for the London & South Western, was a less successful design, and some of the specimens were downright bad.

What part of speech is downright?

Downright can be an adverb, an adjective or a noun.

How do you pronounce downright?

Downright is pronounced /ˈdaʊnɹaɪt/.