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off-and-on

off-and-on is the alternative form of on-and-off.

Meaning of on-and-off

Adjective

on-and-off (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Vacillating, undecided, intermittent.
    • We had an on-and-off relationship and eventually broke up.

Questions about off-and-on

What is off-and-on the alternative form of?
Off-and-on is the alternative form of on-and-off.

Words near off-and-on in the dictionary

  1. off year
  2. off years
  3. off'n
  4. off-
  5. off-air
  6. off-and-on
  7. off-angle
  8. off-angled
  9. off-angles
  10. off-angling
  11. off-base

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Adapted from Wiktionary: off-and-on (page history and authors); on-and-off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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