adj.
Complete; thoroughgoing: An out-and-out capitalist.
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adjective
- Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter2. Informal flat-out, positive. Chiefly British blooming. See big/small/amount, limited/unlimited.
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The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Synonyms: absolute, downright, rank, right-down, sheer
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