English Dictionary

downright

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdaʊnˌɹaɪt/

形容詞

廃用

(obsolete) Directed vertically; coming straight down. / Directly to the point; plain / Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt. / Complete; absolute

日本語の意味

(時代遅れの意味) 真下に向かって垂直に、一直線に落下する様子 / 遠回しではなく、直接的に、素直に / 率直で、ぶっきらぼうに意見を表す様子 / 完全に、絶対に

The ancient pillar remained downright despite centuries of wind and erosion.

古代の柱は、何世紀にもわたる風や侵食にもかかわらず垂直なままだった。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Directed vertically; coming straight down.

Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham, Is either slain or wounded dangerously; I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:

意味（2）

Directly to the point; plain

[…] three Nights together he dreamt that he saw a Neighbouring Gentleman kissing his Mistress, and in downright English, lying with her.

意味（3）

Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.

It bears the evident marks of having originally been, what the honest and downright Doctor Douglass assures us it was, a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat their creditors.

意味（4）

Complete; absolute

For although in that ancient and diffused adoration of Idols, unto the Priests and subtiler heads, the worship perhaps might be symbolicall, and as those Images some way related unto their deities; yet was the Idolatry direct and down-right in the people […] who may be made beleeve that any thing is God […].

more downright （ comparative ）

most downright （ superlative ）