offbeat
/ˈɒfbiːt/
offbeat noun: the beats not normally accented in a measure.
Noun
offbeat (plural offbeats)
- The beats not normally accented in a measure.
- The congregation clapped along on the offbeat.
- An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
- No one dignified such offbeats by responding to their outcries. Today, the "knockers of progress" have become a force that cannot be ignored.1977, Lyle W. Dorsett, The Queen City: A History of Denver
- Being an oddball, an offbeat, or a creative person, as Jourard sees the committed professional, is something all nurses should risk.1980, Eleanor C. Hein, Communication in nursing practice, →ISBN, page 16
- Synonyms:
- oddball, free spirit, heteroclite, individualist, nonconformist, outré, eccentric, deviant, deviate, maverick
Adjective
IPA/ɒfˈbiːt/
offbeat (comparative more offbeat, superlative most offbeat)
- Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.
- He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing.
offbeat meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
offbeat in Urdu
- نرالا
offbeat in Bengali
- অস্বাভাবিক, অপ্রচলিত
offbeat in Malayalam
- unorthodox, unconventional, unusual
- ആചാരവിധേയമല്ലാത്ത, പതിവുതരത്തിൽ പെടാത്ത, അസാമ്പ്രദായികമായ, വിലക്ഷണ, അസാധാരണമായ, സാമാന്യമല്ലാത്ത
Examples of offbeat in a sentence
- Many other successful Offbeatr projects cater to fans of, uh, offbeat erotica.
- He was the dreamy one, the offbeat one, always lost in his own world.
- An offbeat pizza restaurant, which also serves pasta and salads, and bills itself as low-fat and heart-friendly.
Synonyms of offbeat
- oddball
- free spirit
- heteroclite
- individualist
- nonconformist
- outré
- eccentric
- deviant
- deviate
- maverick
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Forms of offbeat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | offbeats |
| alternative form | off-beat |
| alternative form | off beat |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more offbeat |
| superlative | most offbeat |
Origin of offbeat
From off- + beat; not following the beat (e.g., of a drum that sounds out cadence).
Words formed from offbeat
Words that rhyme with offbeat
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- entreat
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
Questions about offbeat
- What does offbeat mean?
- Offbeat means the beats not normally accented in a measure.
- What is offbeat in Urdu?
- Offbeat in Urdu is نرالا. See Offbeat meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is offbeat?
- Offbeat can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce offbeat?
- Offbeat is pronounced /ˈɒfbiːt/.
- What is the plural of offbeat?
- The plural of offbeat is offbeats.
Words near offbeat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: offbeat (page history and authors); offbeat (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); offbeat (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); offbeat (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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