'Downrightness' definitions:
Definition of 'downrightness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness" [syn: downrightness, straightforwardness]
Definition of 'Downrightness'
From: GCIDE
- Downright \Down"right`\, a.
- 1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. [1913 Webster]
- A man of plain, downright character. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
- Syn: honest-to-goodness. [1913 Webster]
- The downright impossibilities charged upon it. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity. --Prescott. -- {Down"right`ly}, adv. -- {Down"right`ness}, n. [1913 Webster]