offhandedly

1. 1.

   without previous thought or preparation

   “couldn't give the figures offhand”

   “we decided offhand to go to Canada”

   “she had made these remarks offhandedly”

   Synonymsoffhandoffhanded
2. 2.

   in a casually inconsiderate manner

   “replied offhand, his mind a million miles away”

   “she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter”

   Synonymsoffhandoffhanded

Questions about offhandedly

What does offhandedly mean?

offhandedly means "without previous thought or preparation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in offhandedly?

offhandedly has 4 syllables: off-han-ded-ly. The stress falls on "han".

What is another word for offhandedly?

Close synonyms include offhand, offhanded, offhand, offhanded. 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 offhandedly a common word?

offhandedly 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.