off
Definition of off:
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part of speech: preposition
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part of speech: adverb
From: away from: on the opposite side of a question: not on.
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part of speech: adjective
Denoting distance; in driving, applied to the right- hand side.
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part of speech: adjective
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part of speech: preposition
Not on;, int. Away; begone; among seamen, abreast of or near; be off, away; depart; from off, denoting removal; ill off or badly off, having fared ill; in a state of poverty; off and on, at one time anxious, at another careless, about anything; off- hand, without preparation or hesitation; without respect; of late, recently; of old, formerly; in time long past; to be off, to depart; to recede from an intended contract or design; to come off, to escape; to fare in the event; to happen, as the race came off; to get off, to alight; to come down; to make escape; to go off, to depart; to desert; to take fire and be discharged, as a gun; to take off, to take away; to mimic; well off, having fared well; in good circumstances.
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part of speech: adverb
From; away; not towards; denoting the action of removing or separating, as to cut off.
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part of speech: adjective
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Common misspellings:
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- roff (0.4%)
- ove (0.4%)
- offguard (0.4%)
- olf (0.8%)
- og (0.4%)
- fron (0.4%)
- ouf (0.4%)
- oss (0.4%)
- offa (0.4%)
- ot (1.5%)
- offf (35.5%)
- offe (0.4%)
- of (0.8%)
- offed (1.9%)
- oa (0.4%)
- fo (1.2%)
- 0ff (0.4%)
- ff (14.3%)
- f (0.4%)
- ffff (0.8%)
- iff (4.6%)
- ofr (1.2%)
- loff (0.8%)
- offd (0.4%)
- oof (11.6%)
- offof (0.4%)
- pf (0.4%)
- aff (2.3%)
- onf (0.4%)
- fgfg (0.8%)
- o (0.4%)
- fhfh (0.4%)
- dff (0.4%)
- 0f (0.4%)
- fgf (0.8%)
- fgfgfg (0.4%)
- ofof (0.4%)
- otf (0.4%)
- 9off (1.2%)
- fdfjkdfksaf (0.8%)
- offl (1.2%)
- offo (0.8%)
- oiff (2.3%)
- ooff (2.3%)
- opff (0.8%)
- pff (1.2%)
- toff (1.2%)
- yoff (0.8%)
Usage examples for off:
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The Traumanns saw me off
"Fragments of an Autobiography" – Felix Moscheles -
Then you are off to- day?
"Three Comedies" – Björnstjerne M. Björnson Commentator: R. Farquharson Sharp -
" She is as well off there as here," said he; " and why can't she stay?"
"Dora Deane" – Mary J. Holmes -
Then he went off somewhere.
"Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery" – Joan Clark
