English Explanatory Dictionary

outright

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Wholly; completely; entirely.
  2. Openly and without reservation.
  3. At once.
  4. With no outstanding conditions.
  5. Blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously.
adj
  1. Unqualified and unreserved.
  2. Total or complete.
  3. Having no outstanding conditions.
verb
  1. To release a player outright, without conditions.

Pronunciation

out-rītʹ /aʊtˈɹaɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-outright (adv).wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-outright.wav outʹrīt /ˈaʊtɹaɪt/

Word forms

outright outrights outrighting outrighted

Etymology

From Middle English outright, equivalent to out + right.

Synonyms

downright absolutely all-out tout à fait all the way blind altogether at large at length cap-a-pie categorically completely detailly entirely exhaustively finally first and last flat-out flat out from aardvark to zymurgy from A to Z from head to toe from soup to nuts from stem to stern from the rooter to the tooter from top to bottom from top to toe fully handsomely heartily head to foot head to tail head to toe hook line and sinker in detail in full lock stock and barrel one hundred percent out-and-out out and out outright particularly perfectly plumb properly purely quite right root and branch soundly soup-to-nuts straight up through and through top to tail top to toe totally

Derived words

outrightly outrightness

Translations

Bulgarian: прямо Catalan: francament Chinese Mandarin: 公开地 Finnish: suoraan Finnish: avoimesti French: ouvertement German: geradeheraus German: ohne Umschweife German: klar German: freiheraus Hungarian: nyíltan Hungarian: egyenesen Italian: apertamente Polish: otwarcie Polish: wprost Portuguese: abertamente Romanian: deschis Romanian: sincer Russian: открыто Russian: откровенно Spanish: abiertamente
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