Dictionary entry

Downright (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.