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outright

/adjective out-rahyt; adverb out-rahyt, -rahyt/US // adjective ˈaʊtˌraɪt; adverb ˈaʊtˈraɪt, -ˌraɪt //

直截了当,直截了当的,彻底的,彻底地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : complete or total: an outright loss.
    • : downright or unqualified: an outright refusal.
    • : without further payments due, restrictions, or qualifications: an outright sale of the car.
    • : Archaic. directed straight out or on.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : completely; entirely.
    • : without restraint, reserve, or concealment; openly: Tell me outright what's bothering you.
    • : at once; instantly: to be killed outright.
    • : without further payments due, restrictions, or qualifications: to own the house outright.
    • : Archaic. straight out or ahead; directly onward.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.complete, unconditional

Examples

  • For each turn, you actually had less than a 50 percent chance of winning outright, since there was a nonzero chance of a mini “War” in which their card had a matching rank, leaving you and your opponent to split the leftover probability.

  • Like many others, he mixed criticism with outright falsehoods.

  • Initially, she had set her sights on breaking Jennifer Pharr-Davis’s 2011 mark of 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes—which was the outright record until Scott Jurek broke it in 2015—but chronic shin splints got in the way.

  • It would be one thing if they were just an outright deniers of the virus’s lethality and threat.

  • This was a tactic by lawmakers, Peer said, because an outright ban would most likely not pass.

  • Occasionally, guys and girls admitted outright they were looking for a potential significant other.

  • We must not interpret gains as an outright victory—nothing could be more dangerous.

  • Fiquet has been largely overlooked, if not outright disdained, by critics and art historians.

  • Fully 88 percent of us either identify outright or lean to a party, 47 percent Democrat and 41 percent Republican.

  • Inhofe is not just a climate-change denier; he is a warrior for corporate-funded half-truths and outright lies.

  • Accordingly, as soon as they saw our Priests they refused outright to let the ship sail if the Jesuits were to embark in it.

  • Gwynne laughed outright, and for the first time without resentment; he was tired of having California "rammed down his throat."

  • Margaret laughed outright and her laughter was so inoffensive and so musical that the Chief Inspector laughed also.

  • Are you going to throw off the mask outright, and become a bad husband as well as a neglectful one?

  • You may go hence if your courage fails you outright; but I'll throw up the bridge and entrench myself within these walls.