offbeat
Noun
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Noun
offbeat (plural offbeats)
- (music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
- The congregation clapped along on the offbeat.
- (slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
- Synonyms: oddball, free spirit, heteroclite, individualist, nonconformist, Thesaurus:maverick, Thesaurus:strange person
offbeat
- Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.
- He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing.
- odd, peculiar, weird; see also Thesaurus:strange
- French: décalé
- Russian: нестанда́ртный
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