escort carrier, Mil. escort fighter.
2. leader, director, pacesetter, Inf. path beater, pilot, guide, torchbearer; herald, harbinger, advance man, usher, announcer, crier; advance guard, courier, pathfinder, explorer; vanguard, apostle, missionary, man from Cook's.
3. cowboy, ranchhand, scout, patroler; explorer, investigator, examiner, inspector.
outright, adj. 1. complete, total, out-and-out, dead, categorical, unequivocal, unconditional, incontestable, flat; thorough, thoroughgoing, wholesale, comprehensive, full, exhaustive, sweeping, radical, all-out, Inf. flat-out; absolute, utter, sheer, stark, arrant, rank; perfect, positive, veritable, consummate, Inf. regular, Inf. plumb, Brit. Inf. proper.
2. downright, unqualified, unmitigated; clear, manifest, distinct, palpable, evident, self-evident, conspicuous, definite, unmistakable, undeniable. -adv. 3. completely, totally, categorically, dead, unequivocally, unconditionally, incontestably; thoroughly, comprehensively, fully, exhaustively, to the utmost, to the full; absolutely, utterly, sheerly, starkly, arrantly, rankly; perfectly, positively, veritably, consummately.
4. overtly, openly, up front, heart to heart; candidly, frankly, forthright, forthrightly, directly, straightforward, straightforwardly; explicitly, unequivocally, undisguisedly, plainly, in plain words or English, with no nonsense, all joking aside; freely, boldly, unreservedly, unrestrainedly, without restraint, unconstrainedly, uninhibitedly, unabashedly, unshrinkingly.
5. guilelessly, ingenuously, sincerely, artlessly, naively, simply, undeceptively, undeceitfully, undeceiv-ingly, without artifice; truly, truthfully, veraciously.
6. immediately, instantly, instanter, in a moment, at once, straightaway, straightway, then and there, right away, right off, Inf. right off the bat; in a glance, in a moment's notice.
outset, n. beginning, start, starting point, inception, early days, very first, first, top, rise of the curtain; opening, dawn, threshold, conception, birth, genesis, origin, embryo, inchoation, exordium; commencement, inauguration, first step, embarkation, Inf. kick-off, Inf. jump-off, Inf. take-off, Inf. blastoff; first appearance, debut, outbreak, outburst.
outshine, v. 1. outdazzle, outluster, put in the shade, make pale by comparison; overshadow, eclipse, bedim, becloud.
2. surpass, excel, outtop, outclass, outrank, outrate, come first; be superior to, take precedence over, override, overrule; outweigh, outbalance, preponderate; be a cut above, be head and shoulders above, outmatch, overmatch, outrival; look better than, upstage, dwarf.
outside, n. 1. exterior, external, outer side; periphery, rim, edge, border, fringe; surface, overlayer, sheath, case, skin, shell, integument.
2. appearance, aspect, demeanor, mien, face; sham, superficiality, guise, facade, false front, Inf front, veneer, coating, protective cover or manner; mask, image, pretense, feigning, smokescreen; window dressing, show, Inf. cover-up.
3. outside world, secular world, civilian world; elsewhere.
4. at the outside at the most, at the maximum, at the top, no more than, not in excess of.
-adj. 5. exterior, outer, external, extrinsic, outward, outdoor, outlying, peripheral; superficial, surface, false, fake.
6. independent, not affiliated, nonaligned, unassociated, unconnected, uncommitted, free; extraneous, irrelevant, not bearing on; foreign, alien, not connected, having nothing to do with.