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Offbeat

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure.

adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The beats not normally accented in a measure.

n. An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.

adj. Unusual, unconventional, not ordinary.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. informal terms; strikingly unconventional

n. an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)

Word Usage

"Mix in offbeat football (it has a feature on Super Bowl Gatorade-dumping on coaches), get in network plugs (Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Tina Fey will pop up) and don't forget the mandatory cooking segment (in this case Tom Colicchio from Top Chef on NBC-owned Bravo)."

Equivalent

unconventional

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

beat rhythm musical rhythm

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Crete Deet Delete Fleet Grete

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

hearsayand off-kilter kooky send-up overprotective