outright
/ˈɑʊtˈrɑɪt/, /ˈaʊtˌraɪt/ adv [not gradable]Definition
› directly and plainly, or immediately instead of in stages: They bought their car outright. I told him outright that I think he is making a mistake. outright /ˈɑʊtˌrɑɪt/ adj [not gradable] › Environmentalists are asking for an outright ban on logging in the old-growth forest.
(Definition of outright adv from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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