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put off

put off verb: to postpone, especially through procrastination.

Verb

put off (third-person singular simple present puts off, present participle putting off, simple past and past participle put off)

  1. (transitive) To postpone, especially through procrastination.
    • Don't put off your homework to the last minute.
    Synonyms:
    shelve, mothball
  2. (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
    • The storm put off the game by a week.
    • The storm put the game off by a week.
  3. (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
    • Please be quiet. I'm trying to concentrate and you're putting me off.
  4. (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
    • Almost drowning put him off swimming.
  5. (transitive) To emit; to give off (an odor, smoke, etc.).
    • This type of firewood puts off a strong smell.
  6. (archaic, transitive) To take off (something worn).
    • to put off a mask
    • The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207

Adjective

put off (comparative more put off, superlative most put off)

  1. offended, repulsed
    • The guest was quite put off by an odor.
  2. daunted or fazed
    • All but the most dedicated were put off by the huge task.

put off meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

put off in Hindi

to put off, defer
टालमटोल करना ṭālamṭol karnā

put off in Tamil

காலங்கடத்து, தள்ளிப் போடு, ஒத்தி வை

put off in Marathi

to put off, beguile
टाळणे ṭāḷṇe

put off in Urdu

ملتوی کرنا, توجہ ہٹانا, لٹکانا, ترک کرنا, چھوڑ دینا, اتارنا
More languagesFewer languages
put off in Telugu
జారుడు jāruḍu
put off in Kannada
ಮುಂದೆ ಹಾಕು, ಮುಂದಕ್ಕೆ ಹಾಕು, ಮುಂದೂಡು, ನುಣುಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳು
put off in Persian
به تعویق انداختن
put off in Thai
เลื่อน lʉ̂ʉan

Synonyms of put off

Forms of put off

Verb
third-person singular presentputs off
present participleputting off
past participleput off
pastput off
Adjective
comparativemore put off
superlativemost put off

Words formed from put off

Questions about put off

What does put off mean?
Put off means to postpone, especially through procrastination.
What is put off in Hindi?
Put off in Hindi is टालमटोल करना (ṭālamṭol karnā). See Put off meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is put off?
Put off can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of put off?
The past tense of put off is put off.

Words near put off in the dictionary

  1. put it there
  2. put it to
  3. put lie to
  4. put lipstick on a pig
  5. put new wine in old bottles
  6. put off
  7. put on
  8. put on a brave face
  9. put on a bus
  10. put on a clinic
  11. put on a pedestal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: put off (page history and authors); टालमटोल करना (Hindi) (page history and authors); put off (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); टाळणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); put off (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); జారుడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); put off (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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