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# outright

«outright» in Mova's school dictionary: **Complete and total, with no doubt: «an outright winner»…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (outright); adverb (outright)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Complete and total, with no doubt: «an outright winner», «an outright lie». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#m1)

2) (adverb) Openly and directly: «She told him outright». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#m2)

3) (adverb) Completely, at once: «He was killed outright»; «They bought the house outright» (paid all of it at once). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In sport an outright winner wins clearly; in money talk to buy something outright means to pay the full price at once, with no loan. In stories it tells the reader something is plain and total. Phrases: «laugh outright», «refuse outright», «win outright».

### examples

- She was the outright winner of the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#x1)
- That's an outright lie! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#x2)
- He refused outright to eat the sprouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#x3)
- Alice laughed outright at the Gryphon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#x4)
- (money) They paid for the car outright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#x5)
- Ask her outright if she took it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#x6)
- The team won the cup outright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#x7)
- Everybody expected to see the boy killed outright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outright/#x8)

### note

Stress: OUT-right (adjective), out-RIGHT (adverb) is also heard. In maths «outright» can mean the full price paid in one go.

### Trees and pragmatics

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