Word Meanings - DOWNRIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Straight down; perpendicularly. 2. In plain terms; without ceremony. We shall chide downright, id I longer stay. Shak. 3. Without delay; at once; completely. She fell downright into a fit. Arbuthnot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOWNRIGHT)

• Flat
• Dull
• tame
• insipid
• vapid
• spiritless
• level
• horizontal
• absolute
• even
• downright
• mawkish
• tasteless
• lifeless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DOWNRIGHT)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate

Related words: (words related to DOWNRIGHT)

• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• MAWKISHLY
  In a mawkish way.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• ABSOLUTENESS
  The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• MAWKISHNESS
  The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman.
• GRADUATED
  Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the
• HORIZONTAL
  1. Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air." Milton. 2. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface. 3. Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance. Horizontal drill,
• VAPID
  Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood. A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste. Burke. --
• MAWKISH
  1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.
• INSIPIDLY
  In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly. Locke. Sharp.
• FURROWY
  Furrowed. Tennyson.
• INSIPIDITY; INSIPIDNESS
  The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. "Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's." Pope.
• HORIZONTALITY
  The state or quality of being horizontal. Kirwan.
• ROUGHEN
  To make rough. (more info) Etym:
• VAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.
• ABSOLUTE
  Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol. (more info) 1. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an
• INSIPID
  1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle. 2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman;
• GRADUATESHIP
  State of being a graduate. Milton.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• WATER LEVEL
  1. The level formed by the surface of still water. 2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n.
• WATER-FURROW
  To make water furrows in.