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off the radar

off the radar prepositional phrase: unlikely to happen or be important in the near future, or tending to escape detection or attention.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Unlikely to happen or be important in the near future, or tending to escape detection or attention.
    • An accession of the Republic of Turkey to the European Union seems to have moved off the radar.
    Synonyms:
    under the radar

Synonyms of off the radar

Antonyms

Questions about off the radar

What does off the radar mean?
Off the radar means unlikely to happen or be important in the near future, or tending to escape detection or attention.
What part of speech is off the radar?
Off the radar is a prepositional phrase.

Words near off the radar in the dictionary

  1. off the lay
  2. off the mark
  3. off the market
  4. off the nut
  5. off the plan
  6. off the radar
  7. off the radio
  8. off the rails
  9. off the record
  10. off the reservation
  11. off the rip

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