offbeat

Plural: offbeats

Noun

• An unaccented beat within a musical measure.
• an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)
• The beats not normally accented in a measure.
• An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.

Adjective Satellite

• informal terms; strikingly unconventional

Adj

• Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.

Examples

• He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing.
• His strategy was always a little OFFBEAT, often leading to unexpected high-scoring plays.
• The congregation clapped along on the offbeat.

Synonyms

far-out, kinky, quirky, upbeat, way-out, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, bizarro, coot, crackpot, crank, curious, deviant, discrepant, eccentric, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, free spirit, fremd, funny, glaik, hard case, heteroclite, hinky, incongruitous, incongruous, individualist, irregular, kook, kooky, live one, maverick, misfit, monstrous, nonconformist, nonstandard, nutbag, nutbar, nutcase, nutter, odd, odd bod, odd duck, odd fish, oddball, oddity, offbeat, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer fish, queerdo, rare, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, strange, strange bird, strange fish, strangeling, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, wack, wacko, weird, weirdie, weirdling, weirdo, weirdsome, wild man, wingnut, yampy

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