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offbeat
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun offbeat has 1 sense
- offbeat(n = noun.communication) upbeat - an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure); Array is a kind of beat, musical rhythm, rhythm
Adjective offbeat has 1 sense
- offbeat(s = adj.all) far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out - informal terms; strikingly unconventional; Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
offbeat, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 not coinciding with the beat.
2 eccentric, unconventional.
--n. any of the unaccented beats in a bar.
--adj.
1 not coinciding with the beat.
2 eccentric, unconventional.
--n. any of the unaccented beats in a bar.
THESAURUS
offbeat
Bohemian, bar beat, beat, bizarre, breakaway, contrasting, counter, deviant, different, disparate, dissimilar, divergent, diverse, downbeat, eccentric, far out, freaky, free and easy, fringy, hardly like, heretical, heterodox, hippie, idiosyncratic, informal, innovative, kinky, maverick, nonuniform, not cricket, not done, not kosher, novel, odd, off, original, out, outlandish, outre, peculiar, pulsation, pulse, queer, rare, recherche, scarcely like, strange, sui generis, throb, unalike, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfashionable, unheard-of, unidentical, unique, unlike, unmatched, unordinary, unorthodox, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, unthought-of, unusual, unwonted, upbeat, way out, weird, weirdo
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