offshore

Other forms of offshore

comparative

offshorer·

superlative

offshorest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about offshore

What does offshore mean?

offshore means "(of winds) coming from the land". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in offshore?

offshore has 2 syllables: off-shore. The stress falls on "off". In IPA it is /ˈɔfˈʃɔɹ/.

What is another word for offshore?

Close synonyms include seaward. 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.

What is the opposite of offshore?

The recorded antonyms are inshore, onshore.

Is offshore a common word?

offshore is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with offshore?

6 words rhyme with offshore. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.