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off-guard

off-guard is the alternative form of off guard.

Meaning of off guard

Prepositional phrase

  1. Not vigilant; unprepared; inattentive.
    • His sudden appearance at the office caught her completely off guard.
    Antonyms:
    on guard
  2. Unexpectedly or by surprise.

Forms of off-guard

comparativemore off-guard
superlativemost off-guard

Questions about off-guard

What is off-guard the alternative form of?
Off-guard is the alternative form of off guard.

Words near off-guard in the dictionary

  1. off-glides
  2. off-gray
  3. off-grid
  4. off-gridder
  5. off-gridders
  6. off-guard
  7. off-hand
  8. off-handed
  9. off-handedly
  10. off-handedness
  11. off-hour

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