downrightness

1. 1.

   the quality of being direct and straightforward

   “what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness”

   Synonymsstraightforwardness

   Broaderdirectness

Other forms of downrightness

plural

downrightnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about downrightness

What does downrightness mean?

downrightness means "the quality of being direct and straightforward".

How many syllables are in downrightness?

downrightness has 3 syllables: down-right-ness. The stress falls on "down".

What is another word for downrightness?

Close synonyms include straightforwardness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is downrightness a common word?

downrightness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.