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out of keeping with

out of keeping with prepositional phrase: not in harmony or conformity with.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Not in harmony or conformity with.
    • THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s.
      A gaudy jacket, remarkably out of keeping with the contents, camouflages the weightiest and meatiest work on a railway topic since the war.1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26

Antonyms of out of keeping with

Questions about out of keeping with

What does out of keeping with mean?
Out of keeping with means not in harmony or conformity with.
What part of speech is out of keeping with?
Out of keeping with is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of keeping with in the dictionary

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

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