right-down
- adjective
- /raɪt-daʊn/
- Informal
- It's completely like a historical text, you know, right down to the footnotes on the appendices.
Make sure your notifications are on and we're just going to get right down to business.
- Make sure your notifications are on and we're just going to get right down to business.
- But when you get right down to this, all it comes down to is stereotypes and roles.
- It would be super early morning till like lunchtime and then it would just like die right down just after lunch maybe.
- And that if you're still swimming in that pool of functionality, your value just drops right down.
- But then when it got right down to it, it was more of, I was more of a tool of, of their, of amusement for them.
Examples
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The instructions were clear, and we went right down to the details to ensure accuracy.
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But when you get right down to this, all it comes down to is stereotypes and roles.
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Make sure your notifications are on and we're just going to get right down to business.
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But you know, when it comes right down to it, government, we can't give up on government.
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Other sports, you can do them whenever you feel like it, But when it comes right down to it, the most healthful sport is probably the one you love to play.
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Let's take a look now, as I was saying, there's a beautiful parcel available right down here by the flats.
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The top is a thick aluminum heat sink that is also vented so you can actually see right down into the power supply.
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So he was accustomed to bookkeeping and everything had to balance right down to the sous, right.
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When it comes to making decisions, you need to focus right down on what matters most.
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Regardless of the circumstances, he stood right down for his principles.
Synonyms
Use to mean very or completely
In a way that shows you are sure something is true
Totally and without any doubt
Completely bad or not acceptable, with no good quality
A complete and clear example of something, often a bad one
In a complete and direct way, without any doubt
Antonyms
How Complete
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word right-down comes from two simple words, right ('straight' or 'exact') and down ('all the way' or 'to the bottom'). So right-down is a strong way to say something is 'completely' or 'absolutely', often used to stress a negative quality.