offhand
About 0.39 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Without planning or thinking ahead.
She gave an offhand speech.
- adjective Careless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
He doesn't realise how hurtful his offhand remarks can be.
- adjective Curt, abrupt, unfriendly.
She was quite offhand with me yesterday.
- adverb Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.
Offhand, I'd guess that that's a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
- adverb In an abrupt or unfriendly manner.
Similar words
careless unprepared unrehearsed extemporaneous extempore off-the-cuff extemporary ad-lib negligent cavalier
Often followed by
manner way remark and comment that remarks i to
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