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out of it

out of it prepositional phrase: not participating in an activity or group.

Prepositional phrase

(informal)

  1. (informal) Not participating in an activity or group.
    • When my old friends turned up, my wife felt quite out of it.
    • This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 3, in Jeeves in the Offing, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1963 (1975 printing), →OCLC, pages 25–26
  2. (informal) Disoriented; not thinking clearly.
    • Having the flu all week left me pretty well out of it.
    1. (informal) Very intoxicated.
    2. (informal) Asleep or unconscious.

Synonyms of out of it

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Questions about out of it

What does out of it mean?
Out of it means not participating in an activity or group.
What part of speech is out of it?
Out of it is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of it in the dictionary

  1. out of heat
  2. out of house and home
  3. out of humour
  4. Out of India hypothesis
  5. Out of India theory
  6. out of it
  7. out of joint
  8. out of keeping with
  9. out of kelter
  10. out of key
  11. out of kilter

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