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out-of-the-way

out-of-the-way adjective: remote or secluded.

Adjective

out-of-the-way (comparative more out-of-the-way, superlative most out-of-the-way)

  1. Remote or secluded.
    • I know this out-of-the-way hotel where we could stay.
    • It was from no choice of my own that I was brought up in an out-of-the-way pallazzo, with nothing to do but to fall in love.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 8

out-of-the-way meaning in Kannada

out-of-the-way in Kannada

ನಗರದಿಂದ ದೂರವಾದ, ಭೇಟಿ ಕೊಡದಿರುವ, ದೂರವಾಗಿರುವ, ದಾರಿಬಿಟ್ಟ

Examples of out-of-the-way in a sentence

  • “Even Darjiling is a little out-of-the-way hole.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 35:
  • Thought it might be fun to do some out-of-the-way venues.1993, “The Ballad Of Climie Fisher”, in Trouble Over Bridgwater, performed by Half Man Half Biscuit:
  • But the replacement of the services by buses, which take far longer because of the number of stations in out-of-the-way villages on the route, will ensure they plummet again.2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “No Marston Vale line trains... and no one in charge seems to 'give a damn'”, in RAIL, number 972, page...

Forms of out-of-the-way

comparativemore out-of-the-way
superlativemost out-of-the-way

Questions about out-of-the-way

What does out-of-the-way mean?
Out-of-the-way means remote or secluded.
What is out-of-the-way in Kannada?
Out-of-the-way in Kannada is ನಗರದಿಂದ ದೂರವಾದ, ಭೇಟಿ ಕೊಡದಿರುವ, ದೂರವಾಗಿರುವ. See Out-of-the-way meaning in Kannada.
How do you use out-of-the-way in a sentence?
“Even Darjiling is a little out-of-the-way hole.”
What part of speech is out-of-the-way?
Out-of-the-way is an adjective.

Words near out-of-the-way in the dictionary

  1. out-of-staters
  2. out-of-the-body
  3. out-of-the-body experience
  4. out-of-the-body experiences
  5. out-of-the-box
  6. out-of-the-way
  7. out-of-time
  8. out-of-town
  9. out-of-towner
  10. out-of-towners
  11. out-of-townish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: out-of-the-way (page history and authors); out-of-the-way (Kannada 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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