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adj
adj
- confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out
- Not clear; unfocused.
- covering with fine light hairs
- indistinct or hazy in outline
- (computing theory) Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.
- Vague or imprecise.
- Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.
- Warm and comforting; affectionate.
noun
- (slang) A police officer.
- (often in the plural) A very small piece of plush material such as lint.
- Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy.
- (slang) A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering.
- (slang, military) A soldier with the rank of private.
noun
adj
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- made dim or less bright
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- offering little or no hope
- Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
- (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
- Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
- Not bright or colorful.
- (music) Clipping of diminished.
verb
- become vague or indistinct
- make dim or lusterless
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- become dim or lusterless
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- (intransitive) To become darker.
- To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
- To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
- (figurative) To diminish, dull, or curtail.
- (transitive) To make something less bright.
adj
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- lacking strength or vigor
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- lacking conviction or boldness or courage
- indistinctly understood or felt or perceived
- deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
- Slight; minimal.
- (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
- Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
- Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
- Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
noun
verb
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- (intransitive) To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
- (intransitive) To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
- (intransitive) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
adj
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- not clearly expressed or understood
- not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
- Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
- Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
- Not having a precise meaning.
- Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
- Not sharply outlined; hazy.
- Lacking expression; vacant.
noun
verb
adj
verb
- become vague or indistinct
- to make less distinct or clear
- become glassy; lose clear vision
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- make dim or indistinct
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- To smear, stain or smudge.
- (copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
- To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
- To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
- (intransitive) To become indistinct.
noun
adj
verb
- become vague or indistinct
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
- utter indistinctly
- play smoothly or legato
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
noun
- a disparaging remark
- a blemish made by dirt
- (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
- Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
- A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
- An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
adj
adj
- not capable of being made consistent or harmonious
- Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
- displaying a lack of consistency
- not in agreement
- (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
- Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.
- Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.
noun
verb
noun
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- (Scotland) Moss.
- (UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
verb
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
noun
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
verb
- become hazy, dull, or cloudy
- harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions
- (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
- (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
adj
- Incoherent; disjointed.
- That is no longer connected.
- (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
- Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
- not plugged in or connected to a power source
- (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
- lacking orderly continuity
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
verb
adj
verb
- cause to become widely known
- spread or diffuse through
- move outward
- (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
verb
- utter unclearly
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
noun
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- the act of swallowing
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
adj
adj
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- 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.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
adv
- 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.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
noun
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
verb
noun
adj
- not clearly expressed or understood
- difficult to find
- remote and separate physically or socially
- not famous or acclaimed
- not drawing attention
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- Dark, faint or indistinct.
- Not well-known.
- Unknown or uncertain; unclear.
- Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse.
verb
- make unintelligible or unclear
- reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
- (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
adj
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
noun
noun
- A lack of clarity or order.
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (collective) A group of wildebeest.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
adj
adj
- unclear because vague or badly organized
- without real or apparent crystalline form
- having no definite form or distinct shape
- lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies
- (of a group of people or an organization) unorganized or unfocused
- Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
- (by extension) Being without definite character or nature.
- (physics) In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.
- (set theory, of a set) Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.
- (by extension) Lacking organization or unity.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- (Scotland) Moss.
- (UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
verb
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
noun
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
verb
- become hazy, dull, or cloudy
- harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions
- (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
- (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
noun
noun
noun
- A lack of clarity or order.
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (collective) A group of wildebeest.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
verb
- become vague or indistinct
- to make less distinct or clear
- become glassy; lose clear vision
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- make dim or indistinct
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- To smear, stain or smudge.
- (copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
- To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
- To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
- (intransitive) To become indistinct.
noun
adj
adj
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- made dim or less bright
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- offering little or no hope
- Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
- (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
- Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
- Not bright or colorful.
- (music) Clipping of diminished.
verb
- become vague or indistinct
- make dim or lusterless
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- become dim or lusterless
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- (intransitive) To become darker.
- To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
- To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
- (figurative) To diminish, dull, or curtail.
- (transitive) To make something less bright.
verb
- become vague or indistinct
- to make less distinct or clear
- become glassy; lose clear vision
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- make dim or indistinct
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- To smear, stain or smudge.
- (copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
- To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
- To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
- (intransitive) To become indistinct.
noun
adj
verb
- become vague or indistinct
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
- utter indistinctly
- play smoothly or legato
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
noun
- a disparaging remark
- a blemish made by dirt
- (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
- Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
- A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
- An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
verb
- utter unclearly
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
noun
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- the act of swallowing
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
adj
adj
- confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out
- Not clear; unfocused.
- covering with fine light hairs
- indistinct or hazy in outline
- (computing theory) Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.
- Vague or imprecise.
- Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.
- Warm and comforting; affectionate.
noun
- (slang) A police officer.
- (often in the plural) A very small piece of plush material such as lint.
- Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy.
- (slang) A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering.
- (slang, military) A soldier with the rank of private.
adj
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- made dim or less bright
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- offering little or no hope
- Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
- (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
- Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
- Not bright or colorful.
- (music) Clipping of diminished.
verb
- become vague or indistinct
- make dim or lusterless
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- become dim or lusterless
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- (intransitive) To become darker.
- To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
- To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
- (figurative) To diminish, dull, or curtail.
- (transitive) To make something less bright.
adj
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- lacking strength or vigor
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- lacking conviction or boldness or courage
- indistinctly understood or felt or perceived
- deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
- Slight; minimal.
- (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
- Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
- Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
- Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
noun
verb
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- (intransitive) To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
- (intransitive) To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
- (intransitive) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
adj
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- not clearly expressed or understood
- not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
- Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
- Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
- Not having a precise meaning.
- Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
- Not sharply outlined; hazy.
- Lacking expression; vacant.
noun
verb
adj
adj
adj
- not capable of being made consistent or harmonious
- Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
- displaying a lack of consistency
- not in agreement
- (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
- Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.
- Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.
adj
- Incoherent; disjointed.
- That is no longer connected.
- (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
- Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
- not plugged in or connected to a power source
- (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
- lacking orderly continuity
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
verb
adj
verb
- cause to become widely known
- spread or diffuse through
- move outward
- (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
adj
adj
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- 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.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
adv
- 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.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
noun
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
verb
adj
- not clearly expressed or understood
- difficult to find
- remote and separate physically or socially
- not famous or acclaimed
- not drawing attention
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- Dark, faint or indistinct.
- Not well-known.
- Unknown or uncertain; unclear.
- Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse.
verb
- make unintelligible or unclear
- reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
- (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
adj
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
adj
- unclear because vague or badly organized
- without real or apparent crystalline form
- having no definite form or distinct shape
- lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies
- (of a group of people or an organization) unorganized or unfocused
- Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
- (by extension) Being without definite character or nature.
- (physics) In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.
- (set theory, of a set) Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.
- (by extension) Lacking organization or unity.