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on-and-off

on-and-off adjective: vacillating, undecided, intermittent.

Adjective

on-and-off (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Vacillating, undecided, intermittent.
    • We had an on-and-off relationship and eventually broke up.
    • an on-and-off kind of chap

on-and-off meaning in Bengali

on-and-off in Bengali

দ্বিধাগ্রস্ত, অমীমাংসিত, সবিরাম

Forms of on-and-off

alternative formon-off

Questions about on-and-off

What does on-and-off mean?
On-and-off means vacillating, undecided, intermittent.
What is on-and-off in Bengali?
On-and-off in Bengali is দ্বিধাগ্রস্ত, অমীমাংসিত, সবিরাম. See On-and-off meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is on-and-off?
On-and-off is an adjective.

Words near on-and-off in the dictionary

  1. on-
  2. on-again off-again
  3. on-again, off-again
  4. on-again-off-again
  5. on-air
  6. on-and-off
  7. on-base percentage
  8. on-base percentages
  9. on-base plus slugging
  10. on-beam
  11. on-board

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