offish

Questions about offish

What does offish mean?

offish means "lacking cordiality; unfriendly".

How many syllables are in offish?

offish has 2 syllables and divides as of-fish 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 offish?

Close synonyms include standoffish. 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 offish a common word?

offish 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.