0 (especially of something bad) extremely or very great:
1 actually or completely:
Their working conditions were downright unhealthy.
While natural for (83c), it is somewhat strained for (83a) and downright odd for (83b).
There will be some qualifications and criticisms, and a few downright disagreements, but they are footnotes to the footnotes.
In this example punctuation suggests that there is no intonational boundary between downright and the following adjective.
To preach a keen interest in how architecture is actually made can be downright unpopular, especially within a school of architecture.
It is often the case that downright appears in contexts which themselves evoke a gradation.
However, bounded heads are not the only possible collocates of downright over time.
But none of them fails to be fascinating; and many are downright brilliant.
For someone outside the culture, the enactment might well have been less obvious or downright unreadable.
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(尤指不好的事情)極端的,極大的,十足的…
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(尤指不好的事情)极端的,极大的,十足的…
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total, absoluto/ta [masculine-feminine], total [masculine-feminine]…
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completo…
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carrément, franchement, direct…
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vyloženě, výslovně, naprostý…
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