of course

Speech parts

1. of course - Adjective

2. of course - Adverb

3. of course - Interjection

4. of course - Phrase

Meaning

as might be expected

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Synonyms

naturally yes yea doubtlessly aye right course aha agreed clearly sure certainly absolutely definitely surely
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Antonyms

nope not never no nay by no means
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Examples

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. Françoise Sagan

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. William S. Burroughs

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. Mickey Spillane

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. Evelyn Waugh

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. Graham Greene

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Thomas Hardy

Words in the phrase

of course

Close letter words and terms

of constance of cork of counsel of course my horse of course not of course, my horse