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offbeat
[ adjective awf-beet, of-; noun awf-beet, of- ]
adjective
- differing from the usual or expected; unconventional:
an offbeat comedian.
noun
- Music. an unaccented beat of a measure.
offbeat
/ ˈɒ´ÚËŒ²ú¾±Ë³Ù /
noun
- music any of the normally unaccented beats in a bar, such as the second and fourth beats in a bar of four-four time. They are stressed in most rock and some jazz and dance music, such as the bossa nova
adjective
- unusual, unconventional, or eccentric
- ( as noun )
he liked the offbeat in fashion
Example Sentences
Collette throws this line of dialogue out so excitedly that it feels almost insignificant, little more than a joke that tells us about her character’s offbeat sensibilities.
His versatility, and the luxury of being able able to choose scripts, led in 2001 to another great performance, in the offbeat comedy The Royal Tenenbaums, which drew rave reviews.
“When you have someone as talented as her, who’s really funny and really capable of being uniquely offbeat, it adds to what you can do for the character,†Brunson added.
He evoked an aging computer programmer with 100 pounds of muscle attached, and he seemed calmer than on the phone, endearingly offbeat.
During filming of the pilot, she was very specific about how she didn’t want the makeup artist to do the best possible job with her eyeliner, choosing an offbeat red color at that.
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