資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
downrightness
n : the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some
people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness"
[syn: {straightforwardness}]