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off-center

off-center is the alternative spelling of off-centre.

Meaning of off-centre

Adjective

off-centre (comparative more off-centre, superlative most off-centre)

  1. (Australian, Canada, Irish, New Zealand, South-African, UK) Displaced from the centre.
    • Place the decorations off-centre on the table.
    Synonyms:
    askew
  2. (Australian, Canada, Irish, New Zealand, South-African, UK) Eccentric, unbalanced, slightly wrong.
    • Every time I see him, he acts a bit off-centre.

Forms of off-center

comparativemore off-center
superlativemost off-center

Words that rhyme with off-center

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Questions about off-center

What is off-center the alternative spelling of?
Off-center is the alternative spelling of off-centre.

Words near off-center in the dictionary

  1. off-camera
  2. off-campus
  3. off-cast
  4. off-casting
  5. off-casts
  6. off-center
  7. off-centre
  8. off-chain
  9. off-chance
  10. off-collab
  11. off-color

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: off-center (page history and authors); off-centre (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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