English Dictionary

off

/ɒf/

adj

Inoperative, disabled. / Cancelled; not happening. / Not fitted; not being worn. / Rancid, rotten, gone bad. / (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.

The television is off.

意味（1）

Inoperative, disabled.

All the lights are off.

意味（2）

Cancelled; not happening.

The party's off because the hostess is sick.

意味（3）

Not fitted; not being worn.

Your feet will feel better once those tight boots are off.

意味（4）

Rancid, rotten, gone bad.

This milk is off!

意味（5）

(by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.

意味（6）

Less than normal, in temperament or in result.

sales are off this quarter

意味（7）

Inappropriate; untoward.

I felt that his comments were a bit off.

意味（8）

(in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.

Our family used to be well off; now we're very badly off.

意味（9）

Started on the way.

off to see the wizard

意味（10）

Far; off to the side.

He took me down the corridor and into an off room.

意味（11）

Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.

He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season

意味（12）

(in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.

意味（13）

(of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.

— I'll have the chicken please.

意味（14）

(Britain, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).

The man and the horse came closer and were Sonny Jacobs of the Diamond Six and a smallish neat sorrel definitely favouring its off forefoot.

意味（15）

(cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.