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Offbeat

The beats not normally accented in a measure.

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📖 Definitions of "Offbeat"

noun

1
The beats not normally accented in a measure.
"The congregation clapped along on the offbeat."
2
An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.

adjective

1
Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.
"He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing."

🔄 Synonyms of "Offbeat"

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
unconventionalnoun	Not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards.
quirky	Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.
kinky	(informal) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
way-out	unusual, unconventional or strange
far-out	Very unusual, eccentric or unconventional

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Offbeat"

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Word	Definition
kinky	(informal) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
quirky	Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.
way-out	unusual, unconventional or strange
far-out	Very unusual, eccentric or unconventional
unconventionalnoun	Not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards.
unaccentverb	(transitive) Not to accent, or to remove the accent from.
non-harmonic tonenoun	(music) a note that is played or sung between two chords that is not a part of either chord
nonaccentnoun	An unaccented beat or syllable, as in music or poetry.
antimusicnoun	(music) Any form of music that defies convention to such a degree that some people would not recognise it as musical.
natural	Existing in nature.
nonstandard	Not standard.
odd one outnoun	(countable) Something or someone in a group that is different or exceptional, that does not fit.
nonsoundnoun	That which is not sound (something audible).
mixed-interval chordnoun	(music) A chord that does not have one consistent interval.
non-wordnoun	(informal) Any term that is not among the words of a language as those have often traditionally been defined by nonlinguists (for example, having syllables, and having come from centuries-old predecessor words): thus, an abbreviation, acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, number written in digits (Arabic numerals 0 to 9), or logographic symbol.
nonunitnoun	Something that is not a unit.
nonettonoun	(rare, music) A nonet.
nonbeverage	(often attributive) That which is not a beverage.
non-regularnoun	Alternative form of nonregular. [(mathematics) Not regular.]
nonaffricatenoun	(phonetics) Any sound that is not an affricate.