Synonyms for downright
ˈdaʊnˌraɪtdown·right

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1. downrightadjective

   characterized by plain blunt honesty

   "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person"

   Synonyms:
   right-down, out-and-out(a), rank(a), sheer(a), absolute

   Antonyms:
   incomplete, uncomplete, dishonest, dishonorable

2. absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)adverb

   complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

   "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"

   Antonyms:
   incomplete, dishonest, dishonorable, uncomplete

3. downrightadverb

   thoroughgoing

   "he is outright dishonest"

   Antonyms:
   uncomplete, dishonest, dishonorable, incomplete

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1. downrightadjective

   Synonyms:
   plain, simple, explicit, clear, undisguised, positive, absolute

2. downrightadjective

   Synonyms:
   honest, sincere, artless, ingenuous, frank, open, above-board

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1. downrightadjective

   Synonyms:
   blunt, direct, unceremonious, positive, undisguised, absolute, unmixed, straightforward

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1. List of paraphrases for "downright":

   frankly, absolutely, simply, totally, completely

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1. Ramani Durvasula:

   [ Narcissists ] wo n’t look them in the eye, are downright rude or dismissive, raise their voice for even a small slight, and may rapidly demand to see the manager.

2. Courtesy José Ralat Ralat:

   I got into it mainly through falling in love with a young lady of Mexican descent from Texas Monthly. And she introduced me to breakfast tacos, and she downright forced me to eat cow tongue. … I was head over heels for both the food and the girl.

3. Jeb Bush:

   What Donald Trump did was use eminent domain to try to take the property of an elderly woman on the strip in Atlantic City. That is not public purpose. That is downright wrong.

4. Mark Twain:

   A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

5. Stewart Ferrin:

   The lack of support, cooperation, and downright bias, coupled with an agenda to ruin my career, has become unbearable and I will not subject my family to this any longer, i do this in an effort to continue with my life, to give my family better opportunities, and move past this horrible experience.