downright

Completely, wholly.figurativelynot-comparable

• He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude.

Of acts or speech: directly and unambiguously; clearly, plainly.archaicfigurativelynot-comparable

• Ros[alind]. Not true in loue? / Cel[ia]. Yes, vvhen he is in, but I thinke he is not in. / Ros. You haue heard him ſvveare dovvnright he vvas.
• VVell, 'tis not my Buſineſs to quarrel vvith her dovvn[-]right.

Straight down; perpendicularly.not-comparableobsolete

• Cedentes capilli, heares [hairs] hanging down ryght.
• He […] climb'd a ſtranded Lighter's height, / Shot to the black abyſs, and plung'd dovvn-right.

Immediately at that place and time; without delay; altogether, at once, then and there.figurativelynot-comparableobsolete

• This is the ſoul that I vvith preſſer quill / Muſt novv purſue and fall upon dovvn-right, […]
• The reading of this Paper put Mrs. Bull in ſuch a Paſſion, that ſhe fell dovvnright into a Fit, and they vvere forc’d to give her a good quantity of the Spirit of Hartſhorn before ſhe recover’d.

Absolute, complete.figuratively

• 'I ſee his Deſign,' ſaid ſhe, 'for he made dovvnright Love to me Yeſterday Morning; but as I am reſolved never to admit it, I beg your Ladyſhip not to leave us alone together any more,[…]'
• Ye're a' gait at ance, Annie Anderson. A doonricht rintheroot!

Of a person or their behaviour: direct, plain, straightforward; also, of speech: direct and unambiguous; blunt, to the point.figuratively

• The ſay this Angelo vvas not made by Man and VVoman, after this dovvne-right vvay of Creation: is it true, thinke you?
• [Y]our dovvne right Captain ſtill Ile lieve, and ſerve you, […]

Coming straight down; directed vertically.obsolete

• Downeright ſtroke […] taille
• This Hawkweede hath no deepe downeright roote, but ſheweth as though it were gnawen or bitten, lyke to the roote of Deuils bit, […]

Chiefly in downright money: in its most basic form; ordinary.figurativelyobsolete

• [T]he merchant's wife, next to her who abounds in plenty, is not to have downright money, but the mercenary part of her mind is engaged with a present of plate, and a little ambition.

A low grade of wool from the lower parts of the sides of a fleece.in-pluralobsolete

• It is ſaid, there are nine Sorts of VVool contained in one good Fleece, vvhich to make out, they ſay, that there are five Sorts for making Cloth, and four for Combings; a ſuperfine VVool, a head VVool, Dovvnrights, Seconds, and Livery.

A vertical line; a perpendicular, a vertical.obsoleterare

• [T]he middle of it [i.e., the thigh, is] the prop or thiller, the body the vveight, and the leg the povver; either of vvhich being brought by a ſharp angle to a dovvnright or perpendicular or more, vvith the thiller, vvill by ſo much leſſen