off

• X-rated
• abeyant
• abominable
• above
• abroad
• absent
• abysmal
• afar
• afield
• ahead
• amiss
• annihilate
• apart
• arrested
• aside
• askew
• asleep
• assassinate
• astray
• at rest
• atrocious
• away
• away from
• awful
• awry
• bad
• barnyard
• bastard
• bawdy
• behind
• below
• below par
• beneath
• beside
• blot out
• blow away
• blue
• brutal
• bum
• bump off
• bush
• bush-league
• butcher
• canceled
• carry off
• cheesy
• claim
• coarse
• coarse-grained
• comatose
• common
• counterfactual
• counterfeit
• crappy
• croak
• crude
• crumby
• crummy
• cut down
• cut-rate
• damnable
• dead
• deceitful
• deceptive
• decomposed
• defective
• deficient
• delusive
• delusory
• deplorable
• destroy
• detestable
• dirty
• disappearing
• disappointing
• disastrous
• disheartening
• dishonest
• dispatch
• displeasing
• dissatisfactory
• distorted
• divergent
• do away with
• do in
• dormant
• down
• dreadful
• dull
• earthy
• egregious
• eliminate
• elsewhere
• eradicate
• erroneous
• execrable
• execute
• exterminate
• fabricated
• fake
• fallacious
• fallow
• false
• far
• farther away
• faulty
• fell
• fictitious
• filthy
• finished
• flagrant
• flawed
• foul
• fragile
• frail
• fraudulent
• free
• fro
• from hunger
• gamey
• gamy
• get
• gnarly
• gone away
• gross
• gutter
• hence
• horrendous
• horrible
• ice
• idle
• ill
• illusory
• immodest
• in the distance
• inaccurate
• inactive
• inadequate
• incorrect
• indecent
• indecorous
• indelicate
• inert
• inexact
• inferior
• inoperable
• inoperative
• insufficient
• interrupted
• invalid
• invented
• junky
• kill
• knock off
• lacking
• lame
• lascivious
• latent
• leering
• lesser
• lewd
• lifeless
• liquidate
• little
• locker-room
• lousy
• low-grade
• low-quality
• low-rent
• lying
• made-up
• marginal
• massacre
• meager
• meagre
• mean
• mediocre
• mendacious
• minimal
• minor
• miscreant
• miserable
• miserly
• misleading
• moribund
• mortifying
• murder
• nasty
• naughty
• negligible
• neutralize
• niggardly
• not employed
• not here
• not on duty
• not up to par
• not up to snuff
• obscene
• odious
• off base
• off-color
• off-colored
• on the shelf
• on vacation
• out
• out of commission
• outside
• over
• paltry
• pathetic
• phoney
• phony
• poor
• pornographic
• porny
• postponed
• prurient
• punk
• put away
• putrid
• quiescent
• quiet
• racy
• rancid
• raunchy
• remote
• removed
• reprehensible
• ribald
• rotten
• rub out
• rubbishy
• salty
• scanty
• scurrilous
• second-rate
• shabby
• sham
• shoddy
• shoot
• shoot down
• short
• skimp
• skimpy
• slack
• slaughter
• slay
• sleazy
• sleepy
• slender
• slight
• slim
• slow
• small
• smite
• smutty
• snuff
• sour
• spare
• specious
• spicy
• spurious
• stag
• stingy
• stinky
• suboptimal
• subpar
• substandard
• sucky
• suggestive
• suspended
• take out
• terminate
• terrible
• tiny
• to one side
• trashy
• trumped-up
• turned
• turning aside
• unacceptable
• unavailable
• unconfirmed
• under par
• unoccupied
• unprintable
• unproven
• unpublishable
• unrewarding
• unsatisfactory
• unsound
• unspeakable
• untested
• untrue
• untruthful
• unusable
• unused
• unworkable
• up front
• useless
• vacant
• valueless
• vanishing
• vile
• villainous
• vulgar
• wack
• wanting
• warm
• whack
• wipe out
• worthless
• wretched
• wrong
• zap

• A1
• G-rated
• OK
• Victorian
• acceptable
• accurate
• active
• adequate
• alive
• all right
• animate
• assiduous
• average
• bang-up
• banner
• better
• borderline
• boss
• busy
• capital
• choice
• classic
• classical
• clean
• close
• confirmed
• considerable
• correct
• crackerjack
• dandy
• decent
• decorous
• demonstrated
• distinct
• divine
• employed
• energetic
• errorless
• established
• exact
• excellent
• exceptional
• fabulous
• factual
• fair
• fancy
• faultless
• feasible
• fine
• first-class
• first-rate
• flawless
• functional
• functioning
• genteel
• going
• good
• goodly
• grand
• gratifying
• great
• groovy
• healthy
• heavenly
• here
• high-grade
• high-test
• impeccable
• industrious
• innocuous
• inoffensive
• jim-dandy
• keen
• large
• largish
• letter-perfect
• living
• marvellous
• marvelous
• mean
• mediocre
• middling
• minimal
• neat
• nice
• nifty
• noble
• nonobscene
• okay
• on
• operable
• operating
• operational
• operative
• par excellence
• passable
• perfect
• polite
• practical
• precise
• premium
• present
• priggish
• prim
• prime
• proper
• proven
• prudish
• puritanical
• raise
• respectable
• restore
• resurrect
• resuscitate
• revive
• right
• running
• satisfactory
• satisfying
• sedulous
• seemly
• sensational
• significant
• sizable
• sizeable
• slick
• so-so
• sound
• special
• splendid
• staid
• standard
• stellar
• sterling
• straightlaced
• straitlaced
• substantial
• sufficient
• suitable
• superb
• superior
• superlative
• supernal
• swell
• terrific
• tested
• tidy
• tip-top
• tolerable
• top
• top-notch
• true
• unexceptional
• unsurpassed
• usable
• useable
• useful
• valid
• veracious
• viable
• vigorous
• wonderful
• workable
• working
• worthy

• noun
  1. (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.
• verb
  1. To kill.
  2. To switch off.
• adjective
  1. Inoperative, disabled.
  2. Cancelled; not happening.
  3. Not fitted; not being worn.
  4. Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
  5. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
  6. Inappropriate; untoward.
  7. (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.
  8. Started on the way.
  9. Far; off to the side.
  10. 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.
  11. (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
  12. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
  13. (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
  14. In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
• adverb
  1. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
  2. Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
  3. So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
  4. 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.
• preposition
  1. Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.
  2. Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
  3. Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
  4. Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
  5. Removed or subtracted from.
  6. No longer wanting or taking.
  7. (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
  8. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.

• Please turn the lights off when you leave the room.
• She took her shoes off before entering the house.
• The teacher asked the students to off their phones during the exam.
• He decided to take a day off work to relax and recharge.
• The cat jumped off the table and landed gracefully on the floor.

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