downright

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf Completely, wholly.

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

2. zarf Of acts or speech: directly and unambiguously; clearly, plainly.

   “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.”

3. zarf Straight down; perpendicularly.

   “Cedentes capilli, heares [hairs] hanging down ryght.”

4. zarf Immediately at that place and time; without delay; altogether, at once, then and there.

   “This is the ſoul that I vvith preſſer quill / Muſt novv purſue and fall upon dovvn-right, […]”

5. sıfat Absolute, complete.

   “'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,[…]'”

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

   “The ſay this Angelo vvas not made by Man and VVoman, after this dovvne-right vvay of Creation: is it true, thinke you?”

7. sıfat Coming straight down; directed vertically.

   “Downeright ſtroke […] taille”

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

   “[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.”

9. isim A low grade of wool from the lower parts of the sides of a fleece.

   “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.”

10. isim A vertical line; a perpendicular, a vertical.