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# downright

«downright» in Mova's school dictionary: **complete or total, used to strengthen a word, often a bad…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective and adverb (downright; downright, downrightly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Downright means complete or total, used to strengthen a word, often a bad one: a downright lie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downright/#m1)

2) Downright as an adverb means completely or thoroughly: downright cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downright/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, downright is used to stress how true or plain something is, often with a feeling of strong surprise or blame.

### examples

- That is downright rude of you! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downright/#x1)
- It was downright cold in the cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downright/#x2)
- He was a downright liar, and everyone knew it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downright/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «downright» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downright/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.