outright

Modifies a noun

• hostility: Fund managers have made a quantum leap from outright hostility to mild interest in housing.
• rejection: Many Reds will feel let down by the board - an outright rejection would have blocked the bid.
• ban: In my opinion an outright ban on smoking in public places is the only way forward.
• passers: The advice of the outright passers for fellow students was compared to that of the major revisers.
• falsehood: Ian Blair ( Commissioner of the Met ) repeatedly fed the press a diet of outright falsehoods.
• winner: Hot of the press - Profile is an outright winner!

Modifying Another Word

• even: But it is doubtful if it can avoid at least some check to growth or even outright recession such circumstances.
• not: Iâm assuming some ideas get rejected, but probably not outright.
• only: In the later context, the reference is to those outside the band where only outright opposition could not be tolerated.
• just: There's more to it than just outright speed tho - slowing from 100mph to a dead halt is just as important.
• sometimes: The study found that care outside the family at these times was still regarded with ambivalence and sometimes outright hostility by many childcare providers.
• either: Depending on the facts, and the tribunal's reasoning, it can be rejected either outright or relative to other evidence.

Used with adjective complement

• reject: The response from the British government and US administration was to reject outright Iraq's invitation to Mr Blix as a political stunt.
• take: On the children taking outright it is thought that the only IHT charge will be the exit charge.