The Meaning of off

• (adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
• (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
• (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
• (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
• (adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
• (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
• (interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
• (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
• (a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
• (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.
• (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.

Synonyms

murder , slay , hit , dispatch , bump off , polish off , remove , cancelled , sour , turned , away , forth , away

Antonyms

on , on

Rhymes

asaf , bake-off , baraff , beloff , blastoff , boff , castoff , checkoff , christophe , cough , croff , cutoff , doff , drop-off , falloff , goff , gorbachev , gough , groff , haaf , hauf , hauff , hof , hoff , joffe , khrushchev , kickoff , knauf , knockoff , knopf , koff , lauf , layoff , leadoff , markoff , mcgoff , mof , molotov , payoff , pilaf , playoff , poff , quaff , ribicoff , rockoff , roff , roffe , romanoff , romanov , rudolf , runoff , saratov , schaaf , schoff , schroff , scoff , selloff , shernoff , shicoff , shroff , skoff , standoff , stauff , stoff , stroganoff , taaffe , takeoff , tradeoff , trough , turnoff