Betekenis van:
downright

downright
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • driedubbel; drievoudig; driema(a)l(ig)
  • complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
"a downright lie"

Synoniemen

Hyperoniemen

downright
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • characterized by plain blunt honesty
    "a downright answer"
    "a downright kind of person"
    downright
    Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
      • complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
      "a downright lie"

      Synoniemen

      downright
      Bijwoord
        • thoroughgoing

        Voorbeeldzinnen

        1. That's downright dangerous.
        2. That movie's downright dirty.
        3. The girl was not downright homely.
        4. The food industry in China is so downright criminal, that city slickers become part-time farmers.
        5. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
        6. The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just 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 away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.