off-the-wall

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (idiomatic) Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd.
  2. (idiomatic) Of a person's behaviour: greatly inappropriate.

Sinonieme

eccentric
C2
outlandish
34k
outre
freaky
C1
gonzo
20k
freakish
35k
flakey
bizarre
C1
odd
B1
flaky
25k
out-of-the-way
quirky
20k
strange
A2
surrealistic
uncommon
C2
unrepresentative
unusual
B1
unwonted
zany
47k
abnormal
C2
queerious
acentric
anomalous
35k
atypical
38k
excentric
extraordinary
B2

far-fetched

knockabout
obstreperous
offbeat
Vertalings

daneben
excêntrico
bizarro
estrafolari
excèntric

εκκεντρικός

αλλόκοτος

παράξενος

παράδοξος

reißerisch
extravagant
fremdartig
extravagant
aberrant
rar
Etimologie (Engels)

Perhaps from baseball or other games played with a ball, alluding to unpredictable bounces; but compare also bounce off the walls.

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