Lexic.us

Definition of Outright

1. Adjective. Without reservation or exception.

2. Adverb. Without restrictions or stipulations or further payments. "Buy outright"

3. Adverb. Without reservation or concealment. "She asked him outright for a divorce"

4. Adverb. Without any delay. "He was killed outright"

Definition of Outright

1. adv. Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

Definition of Outright

1. Adverb. Wholly, completely and entirely. ¹

2. Adverb. Openly and without reservation. ¹

3. Adverb. At once. ¹

4. Adverb. With no outstanding conditions. ¹

5. Adverb. (informal) Blatantly; inexcusably. ¹

6. Adjective. Unqualified and unreserved. ¹

7. Adjective. Total or complete. ¹

8. Adjective. Having no outstanding conditions. ¹

9. Verb. (sports) To release a player outright, without conditions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outright

1. being without limit or reservation [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outright

outreproduces outreproducing outridden outride outrider outriders outrides outriding outrig outrigged

outrigger outrigger canoe outrigger canoes outriggers outrigging outright (current term) outrighted outrighting outrightly outrights

outrigs outring outringing outrings outrival outrivaled outrivaling outrivalled outrivalling outrivals

Literary usage of Outright

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"... on consignment from the publisher; he has no capital to invest in the outright purchase of the books. supply his every want in the literary field. ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"We had not above fifty slain outright and 120 wounded, and the damage to our ships was euch as in two days' time we indifferently well repaired for present ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"preprinting outright news gathered by it, of taking news items published by defendant's subscribers as tips to be investigated, and using the news, ..."

4. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"... Nicaragua—Inevitable Failure of Their Attempts Unless Aided by the Government — Why We Should Purchase outright the Concessions of the Maritime Company ..."

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