different between offbeat vs outlandish

English

Alternative forms

• off-beat, off beat

Etymology

From off- +? beat; not following the beat (e.g., of a drum that sounds out cadence)

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /??fbi?t/
• (adjective) IPA^(key): /?f?bi?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

offbeat (plural offbeats)

1. (music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.

2. (slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.

   Synonyms: oddball, free spirit, heteroclite, individualist, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick, Thesaurus:strange person

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Adjective

offbeat (comparative more offbeat, superlative most offbeat)

1. Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.

Synonyms

• odd, peculiar, weird; see also Thesaurus:strange

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Anagrams

• beat off

English

Etymology

From Middle English outlandisch, from Old English ?tlendis?, from Proto-Germanic *?tlandiskaz. Related to ?tland (“foreign land, land abroad”) (English outland). Sense of “bizarre” from 1590s. Surface analysis outland +? -ish. Cognate to German ausländisch, dated Dutch uitlands (now buitenlands), Swedish utländsk, all “foreign, non-domestic”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??t?lænd??/
• Rhymes: -ænd??

Adjective

outlandish (comparative more outlandish, superlative most outlandish)

1. bizarre, strange
2. (archaic) foreign, alien

Synonyms

• (bizarre, strange): See also Thesaurus:strange
• (foreign, alien): See also Thesaurus:foreign

Derived terms

• outlandishly
• outlandishness

Related terms

• outland

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