out-of-the-way

Speech parts

1. out-of-the-way - Adjective

2. out-of-the-way - Adverb

3. out-of-the-way - Phrase

4. out-of-the-way - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

See under Out, adv.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

out of the way

Synonyms

off the beaten track out of the ordinary far private away separate removed weird queer lonesome unique alone rare secret unusual

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Antonyms

common average good standard close near

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Examples

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. Lewis Carroll

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. Lewis Carroll

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. Lord Byron

they found a quiet out-of-the-way resort Source: Internet

out-of-the-way information Source: Internet

I'm so relieved that my midterm is out of the way Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

out of the way

Close letter words and terms

out-of-the-body out-of-the-body experience out-of-the-box thinking out-of-towner out-of-townish out-of-tree