off-key

Speech parts

1. off-key - Adjective

2. off-key - Adverb

3. off-key - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

inaccurate in pitch

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Synonyms

false sour different off flat sharp harsh bitter irregular fake abnormal cracked unnatural atypical grating
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Antonyms

consonant symphonic silken musical valid harmonic
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Examples

a false (or sour) note Source: Internet

her singing was off key Source: Internet

Recorded at the same session as Transmission, it is off-key and strangely tinny, features a reedy garage rock organ, and is notable mainly for Stephen Morris’s hyperactive drumming. Source: Internet

“If a woman is being raped and she scratches (out) the eyes of her rapist, maybe she’s violent, maybe she’s barbaric, but I’m on her side,” he said, in a closing analogy that a number of conference participants found to be off-key. Source: Internet

You think they’re unfair or that they mischaracterize a debate, reducing it to a single off-key note or creating a false equivalency between polar positions. Source: Internet

The butcher sang arias off-key as he wrapped Die Presse around our meat. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

off-hook off-hour off-ice off-keyness off-kilter off-lease