right-down

1. 1.

   complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

   “absolute freedom”

   “an absolute dimwit”

   “a downright lie”

   “out-and-out mayhem”

   “an out-and-out lie”

   “a rank outsider”

   “many right-down vices”

   “got the job through sheer persistence”

   “sheer stupidity”

   Synonymsabsolutedownrightout-and-outranksheer

   Similarcomplete

1. 1.

   positively

   “a regular right-down bad 'un”

Questions about right-down

What does right-down mean?

right-down means "complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in right-down?

right-down has 2 syllables: right--down. The stress falls on "right-".

What is another word for right-down?

Close synonyms include absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, sheer. 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 right-down a common word?

right-down 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.