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Down"right` (?), adv. 1. Straight down; perpendicularly.
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2. In plain terms; without ceremony.
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We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. Shak.
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3. Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.]
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She fell downright into a fit. Arbuthnot.
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Down"right`, a. 1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
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A man of plain, downright character. Sir W. Scott.
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2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
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The downright impossibilities charged upon it. South.
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Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity. Prescott.

-- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.
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