[ { "word": "off", "phonetic": "/\u0254\u02d0f/", "phonetics": [ { "text": "/\u0254\u02d0f/", "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/off-au.mp3", "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75900179", "license": { "name": "BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" } }, { "text": "/\u0251f/", "audio": "" }, { "text": "/\u0252f/", "audio": "" }, { "text": "/\u0254f/", "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/off-us.mp3", "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=711185", "license": { "name": "BY-SA 3.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" } } ], "meanings": [ { "partOfSpeech": "noun", "definitions": [ { "definition": "(usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off." } ], "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "partOfSpeech": "verb", "definitions": [ { "definition": "To kill.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He got in the way so I had him offed." }, { "definition": "To switch off.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "Can you off the light?" } ], "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "partOfSpeech": "adjective", "definitions": [ { "definition": "Inoperative, disabled.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [ "on" ], "example": "All the lights are off." }, { "definition": "Cancelled; not happening.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "The party's off because the hostess is sick." }, { "definition": "Not fitted; not being worn.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off." }, { "definition": "Rancid, rotten, gone bad.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [ "fresh" ], "example": "This milk is off!" }, { "definition": "Less than normal, in temperament or in result.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "sales are off this quarter" }, { "definition": "Inappropriate; untoward.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "I felt that his comments were a bit off." }, { "definition": "(in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "Started on the way.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose." }, { "definition": "Far; off to the side.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He took me down the corridor and into an off room." }, { "definition": "Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He took an off day for fishing.\u2003 an off year in politics;\u2003the off season" }, { "definition": "(in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "(of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "\u2014 I'll have the chicken please." }, { "definition": "(in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [ "near" ], "example": "The off front wheel came loose." }, { "definition": "In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [ "leg", "on" ] } ], "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [ "fresh", "leg", "on", "near", "on" ] }, { "partOfSpeech": "adverb", "definitions": [ { "definition": "In a direction away from the speaker or object.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He drove off in a cloud of smoke." }, { "definition": "Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "Please switch off the light when you leave." }, { "definition": "So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He bit off the end of the carrot." }, { "definition": "Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] } ], "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "partOfSpeech": "preposition", "definitions": [ { "definition": "Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He's off the roof now." }, { "definition": "Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He was thrown off the team for cheating." }, { "definition": "Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "His office is off this corridor on the right." }, { "definition": "Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "The island is 23 miles off the cape." }, { "definition": "Removed or subtracted from.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "There's 20% off the list price." }, { "definition": "No longer wanting or taking.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He's been off his feed since Tuesday." }, { "definition": "(more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him." }, { "definition": "Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off." } ], "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [ "on" ] } ], "license": { "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" }, "sourceUrls": [ "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/off" ] } ]