adj
Meaning 1
Unqualified and unreserved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I demand an outright apology.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
outright
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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outʹrīt
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/ˈaʊtɹaɪt/
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out-rītʹ
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/aʊtˈɹaɪt/
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rhymes with -aɪt
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adj
Meaning 2
Total or complete.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- We achieved outright domination.
- Truths, half truths and outright lies.
- With little effort they found dozens of outright lies.
- He found a pattern of non-transparency and outright deception.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Having no outstanding conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I made an outright purchase of the house.
- They don't seek outright independence, but rather greater autonomy.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
Wholly; completely; entirely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I refute those allegations outright.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: downright, absolutely, all-out, tout à fait, all the way, blind, altogether, at large, at length, cap-a-pie, categorically, completely, detailly, entirely, exhaustively, finally, first and last, flat-out, flat out, from aardvark to zymurgy, from A to Z, from head to toe, from soup to nuts, from stem to stern, from the rooter to the tooter, from top to bottom, from top to toe, fully, handsomely, heartily, head to foot, head to tail, head to toe, hook, line, and sinker, in detail, in full, lock, stock, and barrel, one hundred percent, out-and-out, out and out, outright, particularly, perfectly, plumb, properly, purely, quite, right, root and branch, soundly, soup-to-nuts, straight up, through and through, top to tail, top to toe, totally, totes, to the bone, to the core, to the full, utterly, well and truly, whole, whole cloth, wholly
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 5
Openly and without reservation; unreservedly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I have just responded outright to that question.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 6
At once.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Two people died outright and one more later.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 7
With no outstanding conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I have bought the house outright.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 8
Blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
Examples
- That was an outright stupid thing to say.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To release a player outright, without conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 10
without reservation or exception
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: straight-out, unlimited
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 11
without any delay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was killed outright
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: instantaneously, instantly, in a flash
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 12
without reservation or concealment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she asked him outright for a divorce
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 13
without restrictions or stipulations or further payments
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- buy outright
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English outright. By surface analysis, out + right.
Across languages
Translations
131 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: категоричен (kategoričen) — unqualified and unreserved
- Bulgarian: безрезервен (bezrezerven) — unqualified and unreserved
- Dutch: eenduidig — unqualified and unreserved
- German: klar — unqualified and unreserved
- German: eindeutig — unqualified and unreserved
- German: uneingeschränkt — unqualified and unreserved
- Italian: pubblica — unqualified and unreserved
- Italian: pubblico — unqualified and unreserved
- Polish: kategoryczny — unqualified and unreserved
- Spanish: con todas las letras — unqualified and unreserved
- Bulgarian: пълен (pǎlen) — total or complete
- Bulgarian: съвършен (sǎvǎršen) — total or complete
- Chinese Mandarin: 全部的 — total or complete
- Finnish: selvä — total or complete
- French: total — total or complete
- French: totale — total or complete
- German: völlig — total or complete
- German: komplett — total or complete
- German: glatt — total or complete
- German: blank — total or complete
- Polish: całkowity — total or complete
- Spanish: pleno — total or complete
- Bulgarian: безусловен (bezusloven) — having no outstanding conditions
- Finnish: selvä — having no outstanding conditions
- German: uneingeschränkt — having no outstanding conditions
- German: vorbehaltlos — having no outstanding conditions
- German: bedingungslos — having no outstanding conditions
- Polish: bezwarunkowy — having no outstanding conditions
- Bulgarian: пълно (pǎlno) — wholly
- Catalan: completament — wholly
- Chinese Mandarin: 完全地 — wholly
- Danish: fuldstændigt — wholly
- Danish: helt og holdent — wholly
- Esperanto: tute — wholly
- Finnish: täysin — wholly
- Finnish: kokonaan — wholly
- Finnish: kokonaisuudessaan — wholly
- French: complètement — wholly
- French: totalement — wholly
- Galician: completamente — wholly
- German: gänzlich — wholly
- German: ganz und gar — wholly
- German: vollständig — wholly
- German: komplett — wholly
- German: total — wholly
- German: rundweg — wholly
- Italian: completamente — wholly
- Polish: całkowicie — wholly
- Portuguese: completamente — wholly
- Romanian: complet — wholly
- Romanian: desăvârșit — wholly
- Russian: целиком (celikom) — wholly
- Russian: полностью (polnostʹju) — wholly
- Serbo-Croatian: potpuno — wholly
- Serbo-Croatian: kompletno — wholly
- Spanish: por completo — wholly
- Spanish: de plano — wholly
- Spanish: plenamente — wholly
- Swedish: helt och hållet — wholly
- Swedish: fullständigt — wholly
- Bulgarian: прямо (prjamo) — openly
- Catalan: francament — openly
- Chinese Mandarin: 公开地 — openly
- Finnish: suoraan — openly
- Finnish: avoimesti — openly
- French: ouvertement — openly
- German: geradeheraus — openly
- German: ohne Umschweife — openly
- German: klar — openly
- German: freiheraus — openly
- Hungarian: nyíltan — openly
- Hungarian: egyenesen — openly
- Italian: apertamente — openly
- Polish: otwarcie — openly
- Polish: wprost — openly
- Portuguese: abertamente — openly
- Romanian: deschis — openly
- Romanian: sincer — openly
- Russian: открыто (otkryto) — openly
- Russian: откровенно (otkrovenno) — openly
- Spanish: abiertamente — openly
- Bulgarian: незабавно (nezabavno) — at once
- Catalan: immediatament — at once
- Chinese Mandarin: 立刻 (lìkè) — at once
- Finnish: välittömästi — at once
- Finnish: heti — at once
- French: immédiatement — at once
- French: sur le coup — at once
- French: sur-le-champ — at once
- German: gleich — at once
- German: sofort — at once
- German: auf der Stelle — at once
- Hungarian: rögtön — at once
- Italian: immediatamente — at once
- Polish: natychmiast — at once
- Russian: сразу (srazu) — at once
- Russian: немедленно (nemedlenno) — at once
- Serbo-Croatian: odjednom — at once
- Serbo-Croatian: imedijantno — at once
- Spanish: inmediatamente — at once
- Bulgarian: безусловно (bezuslovno) — with no outstanding conditions
- Catalan: directament — with no outstanding conditions
- Finnish: ehdottomasti — with no outstanding conditions
- French: directement — with no outstanding conditions
- German: ganz — with no outstanding conditions
- German: als Ganzes — with no outstanding conditions
- Polish: bezwarunkowo — with no outstanding conditions
- French: carrément — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- German: völlig — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- German: schreiend — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Italian: irrecusabilmente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Italian: innegabilmente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Italian: certamente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Italian: inequivocabilmente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Italian: indubbiamente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Italian: chiaramente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Italian: senza dubbio — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Japanese: きっぱり (kippari) — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Japanese: 明白 (meihaku) — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Polish: otwarcie — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Portuguese: indiscutivelmente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Portuguese: claramente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Portuguese: inegavelmente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Portuguese: sem dúvida — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Russian: откровенно (otkrovenno) — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Spanish: rotundamente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Spanish: indiscutiblemente — blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously
- Finnish: päästää — to release a player outright
- Finnish: vapauttaa — to release a player outright
- Polish: zwalniać zawodnika bezwarunkowo — to release a player outright
- Polish: zwolnić zawodnika bezwarunkowo — to release a player outright