OUT-AND-OUT Synonyms: 108 Similar and Opposite Words

out-and-out

adjective

ˌau̇t-ᵊn(d)-ˈau̇t

as in utter

having no exceptions or restrictions an out-and-out cheater at every game she plays her story is not just an exaggeration, it's an out-and-out lie

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as in thorough

trying all possibilities mounted an out-and-out effort to find the lost child

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Recent Examples of out-and-out More than 550 people attended to cheer on the eclectic group of trailblazers, stars and out-and-out icons. —

Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025 The Conjuring is an out-and-out masterpiece that introduced Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga’s versions of real-life ghostbusters Ed and Lorraine Warren and inaugurated what would become horror’s first $2 billion franchise. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025 There was out-and-out enslavement, of Native Americans and Africans; there were onerous tribute demands and a labor corvée called the repartimiento. —

Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025 Ten years later, the first out-and-out skate shoe would launch through the Era, which was designed with help from pioneers Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta. —

Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for out-and-out

Recent Examples of Synonyms for out-and-out

Adjective

The New York Knicks took care of business, to say the least, against the Philadelphia 76ers with another utter demolition on the road in a close-out game.

— Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 11 May 2026
The obituaries, social media posts and GoFundMe pages capture the utter despair of the families, though none of them reckon with the decision not to get the vitamin K shot.

— Duaa Eldeib, CNN Money, 8 May 2026