straight-out

See also: straight out

English

Adjective

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

  1. Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise.
  2. unqualified; thoroughgoing
    Synonym: out-and-out
    • 1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp:
      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.
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