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plumbadjective having no exceptions or restrictionsa horror movie that's plumb trash and further evidence of the deterioration of popular culture absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming(chiefly British), bodacious(Southern & Midland), categorical(also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritableconstant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremittingextreme, unrestrictedconfirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterateextraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertain rising straight upthe wall was not plumb, so everything else in the room was out of kilter erect, perpendicular, raised, stand-up, standing, upright, upstanding, vertical elevated, lifted, upended, upraisedsemierectfreestanding, stand-alone flat, recumbent prostrate, supinediagonal, hanging, sagging, slant, slanted, slanting, slanty plumbadverbin a direct line or courseI can't believe he walked plumb into the tree, without even seeing it! chiefly dialectto a full extent or degreeI'm plumb tuckered out all, all of, all over, altogether, clean, completely, dead, enough, entire, entirely, even, exactly, fast, flat, full, fully, heartily, out, perfectly, quite, soundly, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, well, wholly, wide absolutely, categorically, cold, downright, hands down, plain, stone, stone-cold, unqualifiedlybasically, by and large, chiefly, generally, largely, mainly, more or less, mostly, overall, predominantly, predominately, primarily, principally, substantiallyabundantly, copiously, generously, greatly all the way, at length, down the line, down to the ground, for fair, in whole, to bits, to pieces, to the hilt, to the max half, halfway, incompletely, part, partially, partly barely, hardly, just, kind of, marginally, minimally, scarcely, slightly, superficiallyapproximately, roughly, somewhat without delaywe had no sooner resolved that crisis than we plumb rushed into another one bang, directly, forthwith, headlong, immediately, incontinently, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, now, PDQ, presently, promptly, pronto, right, right away, right now, right off, straight off, straightaway, straightway away, freelyanon, momentarily, shortly, soonapace, briskly, fast, fleetly, full-tilt, posthaste, quick, quickly, rapidly, readily, snappily, speedily, swift, swiftlyabruptly, presto, suddenly, unexpectedlyhastily, impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklesslyexactly, opportunely, punctually, seasonably at once, in no time, off the bat, on a dime, on the double, on the spot slowlylate, tardily plumbverbto measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted lineplumbed the bay to make sure it was deep enough for the ship adj.vertical, perpendicular, plumb mean being at right angles to a base line.vertical suggests a line or direction rising straight upward toward a zenith.the side of the cliff is almost vertical perpendicular may stress the straightness of a line making a right angle with any other line, not necessarily a horizontal one.the parallel bars are perpendicular to the support posts plumb stresses an exact verticality determined (as with a plumb line) by earth's gravity.make sure that the wall is plumb in the 14th century |