off-the-wall

Questions about off-the-wall

What does off-the-wall mean?

off-the-wall means "conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual".

How many syllables are in off-the-wall?

off-the-wall has 3 syllables and divides as off--the--wall under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for off-the-wall?

Close synonyms include bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is off-the-wall a common word?

off-the-wall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.