Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Without reservation or qualification; openly: finally responded outright to the question.
- adv. Completely and entirely; wholly: denied the charges outright.
- adv. At once; straightway: were killed outright in the crash.
- adv. Without additional payments owing, constraints, or stipulations: owns the property outright.
- adj. Presented without reservation; unqualified: an outright gift.
- adj. Complete; total: outright victory.
- adj. Thoroughgoing; out-and-out: outright viciousness; an outright coward.
- adj. Made without constraints, stipulations, or additional payments owed: outright sale of the property.
- adj. Archaic Moving straight onward.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Straight on; right onward; directly; hence, at once; immediately; without delay.
- To the full extent; completely; entirely; altogether; without reservation: as, to settle a bargain outright.
- Downright; unqualified: as, outright wickedness.
- Straight out; straight on.
- Total; entire: as, the outright sum was $3,000.
Wiktionary
- adv. Wholly, completely and entirely.
- adv. Openly and without reservation.
- adv. At once.
- adv. With no outstanding conditions.
- adv. informal Blatantly; inexcusably.
- adj. Unqualified and unreserved.
- adj. Total or complete.
- adj. Having no outstanding conditions.
- v. sports To release a player outright, without conditions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Downright; plain; unqualified; utter; straight-out.
- adv. Immediately; without delay; at once.
- adv. Completely; utterly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. without restrictions or stipulations or further payments
- adj. without reservation or exception
- adv. without any delay
- adv. without reservation or concealment
Etymologies
- From Middle English out + right (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I aim to win the title outright at West Ham and then to establish them in the Premier League.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Arizona can win the title outright by beating Oregon at home on Saturday.”
“They could win the title outright by winning Monday at Winslow Township.”
“Finally, it was official -- the Nighthawks won the title outright thanks to a tiebreaking 79 from their fifth scorer, a senior who has been with the program since its inception.”
“Buchanan (21-0-1, 8-0) can win the title outright with a victory in one of its final two regular-season games: Friday at Clovis East or Feb. 10 at home against Central.”
“The Chinese finished the four-team tournament with seven points and will win the title outright if hosts Japan fail to beat South Korea by three goals in Tokyo later on Sunday.”
“It was the third consecutive championship for the Cougars, who won the title outright in 2008 and shared it with Edina last season.”
“Improving to 22-0 (7-0 Big Ten), Iowa now stands alone atop the conference regular season standings with a chance to clinch the title outright Sunday afternoon at Wisconsin.”
“The Cowboys 10-1, 6-1 Big 12, can win the title outright if Baylor beats No.”
“No. 20 Ray (24-7 overall, 10-0 district) can claim the title outright with a victory in either of its final two games, against Moody and Gregory-Portland.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘outright’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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-ight
light, night, wight, hight, knight, fight, bright, right, fright, bight, eight, might and 174 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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supplementary
for enhancement of any English test
consanguineous, worldly, naiveté, enshroud, pernicious, prerogative, traitor, fledgling, vengeance, provision, furnish, quarrel and 94 more...
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-right
adj./adv.
outright, downright, forthright, upright, alright, aright, topright, foreright, overright, unright
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Words from 2009 'Inglourious Basterds' film.
guise, testify, trepidation, moniker, bestow, buffling, cunning, scamper, animosity, rodent, repulsive, dignity and 74 more...
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[usual] familiar
ubiquitous vocab list with familiar root, suffix and prefix
untimely, travail, multifaceted, conceive, truce, immaterial, Unconscionable, Insufferable, inestimable, histrionic, thoroughgoing, accustomed and 4 more...
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[GRE] 7 Apr 2013
the words that i forgot or learnt today
slovenly, decadent, archaism, prescribe, bewilder, prone, fraternity, fascist, hatred, bestial, incendiarism, medieval and 48 more...
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Words to learn
omit, in all likelihood, unlikely, utterly, every now and then, once in a while, deceptive, consequence, after all, ever since, reckon, show off and 52 more...
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