downright
意味
- (悪いことについて)徹底的な,全くの
- ざっくばらんな
- (悪いことについて)全く,徹底的に
例文
The girl was not downright homely.
その女の子はひどく不美人というほどではなかった。
That movie's downright dirty.
あの映画はえげつない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The adverb is derived from Middle English dounright, dounriȝt (“right down, straight down; face down; vertically; used for emphasis: outright, downright”), and then either: * possibly an aphetic form of adounright (“straight down; directly, immediately (?)”), from adoun (“downward”, adverb) (from Old English adūn, adūne (“down, downward”, adverb), ultimately from dūn (“hill, mountain”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūnā, *dūnu (“hill; sand dune”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“haze, mist; smoke”)) + right (“direct; straight; etc.”, adjective) (from Old English riht (“straight; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”)); or * from doun (“down, downward;…