Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word OFF

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Definitions of OFF

1. Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
2. So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
3. Inoperative, disabled.
4. Cancelled; not happening.
5. Not fitted; not being worn.
6. Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
7. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
8. Inappropriate; untoward.
9. Started on the way.
10. Far; off to the side.
11. Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
12. Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
13. Removed or subtracted from.
14. No longer wanting or taking.
15. In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
16. (theatre) Offstage.
17. Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
18. (by extension, AU, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
19. (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
20. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
21. (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
22. (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
23. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
24. Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
25. Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
26. Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
27. (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
28. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
29. (transitive, slang) To kill.
30. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines, Nigeria) To switch off.
31. (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

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