Off
/ɔːf/
noun
adjective
- Inoperative, disabled.
"All the lights are off."
- Cancelled; not happening.
"The party's off because the hostess is sick."
- Not fitted; not being worn.
"The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off."
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
"This milk is off!"
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
"sales are off this quarter"
adverb
- In a direction away from the speaker or object.
"He drove off in a cloud of smoke."
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
"Please switch off the light when you leave."
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
"He bit off the end of the carrot."
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
preposition
- Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.
"He's off the roof now."
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
"He was thrown off the team for cheating."
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
"His office is off this corridor on the right."
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
"The island is 23 miles off the cape."
- Removed or subtracted from.
"There's 20% off the list price."
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Off"
Off is a 3-letter word that scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words With Friends.
Using "Off" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "off" is a low-scoring word.