downright

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a. 明白的, 率直的, 十足的 adv. 全然, 彻底, 完全

发音

US /ˈdaʊnɹaɪt/

词形变化

downrights 复数 downrights more downright 比较级 most downright 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

明白的;直率的;显明的

副词

完全,彻底;全然

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    废旧
  2. 2.

    A vertical line; a perpendicular, a vertical.

    废旧 罕用
adj.
  1. 1.

    Absolute, complete.

    比喻
  2. 2.

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

    比喻
  3. 3.

    Coming straight down; directed vertically.

    废旧
  4. 4.

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

    比喻 废旧
adv.
  1. 1.

    Completely, wholly.

    比喻

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

  2. 2.

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

    古体 比喻
  3. 3.

    Straight down; perpendicularly.

    废旧
  4. 4.

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

    比喻 废旧

词汇关系

词源

The adverb is derived from Middle English dounright, dounriȝt (“right down, straight down; face down; vertically; used for emphasis: outright, downright”), and then either: * possibly an aphetic form of adounright (“straight down; directly, immediately (?)”), from adoun (“downward”, adverb) (from Old English adūn, adūne (“down, downward”, adverb), ultimately from dūn (“hill, mountain”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūnā, *dūnu (“hill; sand dune”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“haze, mist; smoke”)) + right (“direct; straight; etc.”, adjective) (from Old English riht (“straight; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”)); or * from doun (“down, downward; etc.”, adverb) (from Old English dūne (“down”), ultimately from dūn (“hill, mountain”): see above) + right. By surface analysis, down (adverb) + right (adjective). The adjective and noun are derived from the adverb. Noun sense 1 (“low grade of wool”) may be from the obsolete adjective sense 2.2 (“in its most basic form; ordinary”).

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