offhand

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Without planning or thinking ahead.
2. Careless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
3. Curt, abrupt, unfriendly.

Adv

1. Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.
2. In an abrupt or unfriendly manner.

Conceptos

abrupto

brusco

indiferente

acantilado

escarpado

de improviso

frío

🥶

desabrido

repentino

rigido

súbito

tirante

descuidado

brusca

Sinónimos

offhanded

abrupt

extempore

casual

extemporaneous

extemporary

brusque

offhandedly

extemporaneously

impromptu

unrehearsed

off-the-cuff

steep

easy

improvised

blunt

ad hoc

ad-lib

careless

cavalier

simple

sudden

impromtu

curt

cursory

cheap

cavalierly

carefree

flippant

forthwith

glib

gruff

happy-go-lucky

immaterial

immediately

brusquely

bluff

in addition to

indifferent

informal

insouciant

jerky

negligent

off-hand

blithesome

off-handed

blithe

off the cuff

automatic

on the spot

Traducciones

plötzlich

brusco

abrupto

unvorbereitet

zusammenhanglös

kortaf

jäh

abrupte

abrupt

schroff

unvermutet

zusammenhanglos

abrupt

bruusk

zerklüftet

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˌɔfˈhænd/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con islandés: afhendur

In summary

From Middle English *ofhande, *ofhende, from Old English ofhende (“absent, lost”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *abahandijaz. Equivalent to (and re-formed as) off- + hand. Cognate with Icelandic afhendur. Compare onhand.