different between offbeat vs syncopation

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

Translations

Adjective

offbeat (comparative more offbeat, superlative most offbeat)

1. Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Anagrams

• beat off

English

Etymology

syncopate +? -ion The phonological sense first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.

Noun

syncopation (usually uncountable, plural syncopations)

1. (linguistics, phonology) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
2. (music) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.

Derived terms

• syncopational
• syncopationally

Related terms

• syncope

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