资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Downright \Down"right`\, a.
   1. Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he
      spoke in his downright way.

            A man of plain, downright character.  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as,
      downright atheism.

            The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
                                                  --South.

            Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright
            insanity.                             --Prescott.
      -- {Down"right`ly}, adv. -- {Down"right`ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

downrightness
     n : the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some
         people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness"
         [syn: {straightforwardness}]