OUTRIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outright mean? 

• OUTRIGHT (adjective)
  The adjective OUTRIGHT has 1 sense:

1. without reservation or exception

  Familiarity information: OUTRIGHT used as an adjective is very rare.

• OUTRIGHT (adverb)
  The adverb OUTRIGHT has 3 senses:

1. without restrictions or stipulations or further payments

2. without reservation or concealment

3. without any delay

  Familiarity information: OUTRIGHT used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTRIGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without reservation or exception

Synonyms:

outright; straight-out; unlimited

Similar:

unqualified (not limited or restricted)

• OUTRIGHT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without restrictions or stipulations or further payments

Context example:

buy outright

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without reservation or concealment

Context example:

she asked him outright for a divorce

Sense 3

Meaning:

Without any delay

Synonyms:

in a flash; instantaneously; instantly; outright

Context example:

he was killed outright

 Context examples 

Amy rebelled outright, and passionately declared that she had rather have the fever than go to Aunt March.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I thought she might faint outright, but she controlled herself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It appeared to me that she never said anything she wanted to say, outright; but hinted it, and made a great deal more of it by this practice.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As for that lot and their council, mark me, they're outright fools and cowards.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You can also count on having staunch family support for home-related goals, so if you need a loan or an outright gift of cash, ask your parents for help this month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They could not get through; and as Miss Bertram's inclination for so doing did by no means lessen, it ended in Mr. Rushworth's declaring outright that he would go and fetch the key.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At the sight of the man Alleyne had stood staring, but at the sound of his voice such a thrill of joy bubbled up in his heart that he had to bite his lip to keep himself from shouting outright.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looked at Meg with such a lackadiasical expression that she laughed outright and spoiled his song.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My aunt cried outright as she embraced me; and said, pretending to laugh, that if my poor mother had been alive, that silly little creature would have shed tears, she had no doubt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The doctor stopped outright, although he did not speak, and it was some seconds before he seemed able to move on.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)