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Definition: OUT AND OUT |
OUT AND OUT1. (a) adv. Completely; wholly; openly. (b) adj. Without any reservation or disguise; absolute; as, an out and out villain. [As an adj . written also out-and-out .] |
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Literature | Out and Out Incomparably, by far, or beyond measure; as, "He was out and out the best man." "It is an out-and-outer" means nothing can exceed it. It is the word utter, the Anglo-Saxon útaerre. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Out and Out Rout (1966) | |
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Expression using "OUT AND OUT": all out and out. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "OUT AND OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plotësisht (absolutely, all, at large, clear, cold, completely, dead, diametrically, entirely, fully, heartily, hollow, large, neck and crop, outright, perfectly, plain, plenty, Plumb, properly, quite, sheer, sound, stark, thoroughly, through and through, throughly, to the full extent, to the ground, totally, up, up to the hilt, utterly, well, wholly, wide, widely), pa dyshim (admittedly, by all means, certainly, decidedly, definitely, distinctly, doubtless, ex cathedra, far and away, implicitly, quite so, sure enough, sure thing, surely, undoubtedly, unhesitatingly, without a doubt, without fail), në mënyrë të plotë, krejt (absolutely, altogether, at all, clean, complete, diametrically, fast, flat, plenty, quite, thorough-paced, up, very), kokë e këmbë (cap-a-pie, head over heels), i plotë (all out, big, broad, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, dead, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, flush, fraught, full, gross, integral, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, pregnant, radical, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, utter, whole), fund e krye. (various references) | |
Arabic | كامل (absolute, all out, complete, completed, concluded, consummate, entire, essential, finalized, finished, full, full blown, full scale, integral, integrate, outright, perfect, plenary, plumb, rounded off, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified, utter, whole), ساحق (cracking, crusher, crushing, great, landslide, massive, overpowering, overwhelming, rank, reducible, shattering, sweeping, swinging), صلب (adamant, aguish, callosity, callous, cast iron, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, firm, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, metallic, persistent, ramrod, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unkind, unyielding). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвършено (absolutely, completely, ideally, perfectly, quite, stark, to perfection, utterly), съвършен (consummate, finished, full, ideal, indefectible, masterly, outright, perfect, right-down, spheral, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, transcendent, unexceptionable, very), стопроцентов (positive, regular), окончателно (completely, finally, for good, fully, outright), напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, sheer, spang, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog). (various references) | |
Chinese | 百分之百 (a hundred percent, absolutely). (various references) | |
Czech | skrz naskrz (throughout). (various references) | |
French | total (outright), complet (outfit, outright), écrasant, tout crin. (various references) | |
German | vollkommen (absolute, absolutely, altogether, complete, completely, consummate, ideal, integral, outright, perfect, perfectly, plenarily, profound, quintessential, thorough, thoroughly, totally, unflawed, unmitigated, utter), völlig (absolutely, altogether, arrant, complete, completely, consummately, dead, downright, entirely, full, fully, outright, perfect, perfectly, plain, profound, quite, sheer, thorough, through, total, totally, uncompromisingly, utterly, wanton, wholly, widely), total (dead, entire, integral, outright, overall, radical, thoroughly, total, totalitarian, totally, unmitigated, utter, utterly, whole), hundertprozentig (hundred per cent, pure, uncompromising, uncompromisingly), erz- (metropolitan, unmitigated), ausgemacht (absolute, agreed, complete, egregious, outright, perfect, utter). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל'מרי (altogether, clean, completely, downright, entirely, fully, neck and crop, over, quite, right, thoroughly, to the wide, totally, up to the hilt, utterly, wholly), כליל (complete, completely, downright, entirely, over, passim, quite, stark, stiff, thoroughly, total, totally, utter, utterly, whole), 'מור (absolute, complete, completion, concluded, conclusion, end, ended, entire, finish, finished, finishing, outright, perfect, sheer, stark, termination, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, total, utter, very). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kimondott (out-and-out, pronounced), leghatározottabban (first last and all the time), leghatározottabb (out-and-out), kimondottan (specifically). (various references) | |
Italian | vero e proprio (proper, rank), completo (absolute, all, all out, all round, arrant, blank, clear, complete, dead, entire, full, full up, implicit, inclusive, integral, intimate, outfit, outright, overall, perfect, round, set, sound, stark, suit, thorough, total, totally, unabridged, utter, whole). (various references) | |
Manx | ooilley as ass (all and all), ass as ass, ass (ex, hailing from, out of, out of him). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | outay anday outay.(various references) | |
Romanian | perfect (a1, absolute, accomplished, all right, blameless, classic, consummate, faultless, flawless, good enough, okay, perfect, perfectly, pure, quite so, right-down, ripe, that's fine, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, tiptop, total, unimpeachable), desãvârşit (absolute, accomplished, blank, complete, consummate, faultless, finished, full-fledged, perfect, perfectly, pure, right-down, stark, thorough, thoroughpaced), cu totul (all, all in all, downright, entirely, every bit, merely, most, outright, perfectly, plenty, quite, right, thoroughly, to the full, up to the nines, utterly, wholly), convins (confident, confirmed, convinced, earnest, persuaded, positive), în întregime (all, all in all, bodily, clear, completely, entirely, hard, in full, long, wholly). (various references) | |
Russian | несомненно (and no mistake, assuredly, by long odds, certain, certainly, clearly, decidedly, definitely, doubtless, evidently, for fair, forsooth, no doubt, surely, there is no question that, undoubtedly, without doubt). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | okoreo (addicted, arrant, chronic, confirmed, double-dyed, dyed in the wool, impenitent, ingrain, ingrained, inveterate, obdurate, thorough). (various references) | |
Spanish | redomado (arrant), firme (adamant, ballast bed, bed, decisive, fast, firm, foursquare, hard, persistent, positive, road, roadbed, secure, set, solid, sound, staunch, steadfast, steady, strong, sure, surface, unmoved, unswerving, unwavering), de tomo y lomo, consumado (accomplished, consumated, consummate, finished, perfect, rightdown, spent), cien por cien (a hundred per cent, all over, stalwart), acérrimo (all out, die hard, hot, stalwart, very strong). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvättäkta (authentic, genuine, out-and-out, true, washable, washproof, wasshable), total (aggregate, entire, full scale, global, integral, out-and-out, outright, overall, pure, rank, stark, total, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, wholehearted), riktig (apposite, appropriate, correct, fair, just, perfect, plentiful, positive, proper, pucka, pukka, right, righteous, sound, thorough, true), komplett (absolute, absolutely, complete, congenital, integral, self contained), inpiskad, grundlig (close, exhaustive, in depth, out-and-out, profound, radical, searching, sound, thorough, thoroughgoing), genuin (genuine, honest, kosher), fullständig (absolute, all out, all-out, clean, complete, congenital, dead, entire, exhaustive, full, full scale, outright, perfect, plenary, rank, stark, teetotal, total, unmitigated). (various references) | |
Turkish | tamamen (absolutely, all, altogether, at large, bang, bang on, chock, clean, clear, completely, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, exactly, fair, fully, heart and soul, hollow, holo-, hopelessly, in the highest degree, in toto, neck and crop, off, outright, perfectly, plenty, precious, properly, quite, richly, roundly, sheer, simply, staring, stark, thoroughly, thro, through, through and through, thru, thru and thru, up to the hilt, utterly, well, whole, wholly, wide), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), su katılmadık (prize, quite, through and through, thru and thru, trueborn, utter), son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), başlıbaşına (individual), bütün (aggregate, all, all out, all over the, altogether, at all, clear, complement, complete, continuum, entire, entirely, every, everything, gross, holo-, integral, omni-, one and only, overall, pan-, quite, round, sheer, solid, the total, the whole, total, totality, unbroken, undivided, utter, whole, wholly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цілковитий (absolute, abysmal, all out, crass, dense, exquisite, orbicular, outright, pure, right-down, teetotal), запеклий (cutthroat, hard-fought, stiff, stubborn), лютий (angry, diabolic, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fierce, rampant, savage, truculent, wicked), повний (absolute, all out, big, broad, chock-a-block, complete, crass, definitive, entire, fatty, flush, full, integral, orbicular, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, utter, whole), переконаний (certain, confirmed, convinced, earnest, satisfied). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-o-o-t-t-u-u" | |
-4 letters: datto, daunt, donut, outdo, tanto, taunt, tondo. | |
-5 letters: aunt, auto, dato, daut, doat, dona, dunt, nota, onto, otto, taut, toad, toon, toot, tout, tuna, tutu, unau, undo, unto. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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