straight-out
See also: straight out
English
Adjective
straight-out (comparative more straight-out, superlative most straight-out)
- Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise.
- 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.