straight-out

adjective

Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise.

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out-and-outoutrightunlimitedunqualified
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Meanings

adjectivestraight-out (comparative more straight-out, superlative most straight-out)

comparative more straight-out · superlative most straight-out

  1. Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise.
  2. unqualified; thoroughgoing

    Anne was indignant with that straight-out and generous indignation which belongs to women, who are ready to follow their principles to any result with more inconsiderate fearlessness than men.

    1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

    Synonyms: out-and-out

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveunqualified; thoroughgoing

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out-and-out

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivewithout reservation or exception

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outrightunlimitedunqualified
Also see
outrighttotalunlimitedunqualified

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

straight-out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/straight-out

MLA

“straight-out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/straight-out. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “straight-out,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/straight-out.

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