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offtopic

offtopic is the alternative form of off-topic.

Meaning of off-topic

Adjective

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

  1. Not related to the matter under discussion.
    • When someone asks an off-topic question […] they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks.1992, Dial in, page 9

Forms of offtopic

comparativemore offtopic
superlativemost offtopic

Questions about offtopic

What is offtopic the alternative form of?
Offtopic is the alternative form of off-topic.

Words near offtopic in the dictionary

  1. offthrown
  2. offthrows
  3. offtime
  4. offtimes
  5. offtook
  6. offtopic
  7. offtrack
  8. offuscate
  9. offuscated
  10. offuscates
  11. offuscating

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