Downright

/ˈdaʊnɹaɪt/

Synonyms for "downright" (250 found)

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Closest matches (50)

Adjective(1 words)
Adverb(2 words)

Strong matches (75)

Related words (125)

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degree adverbdegree modifierintensifiermodifier

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Collocations

8 entries
downright dangerousdownright impossibledownright liedownright nonsensedownright obviousdownright refusaldownright unacceptabledownright wrong

Inflections

2 entries
more downrightmost downright

Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

57 total sentences available.

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The girl was not downright homely.

Source: tatoeba (46648)

That movie's downright dirty.

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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.

Source: tatoeba (552745)

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

Source: tatoeba (909187)

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