Offhanded

Definition: Offhanded

Offhanded

Adjective

1. With little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments".

2. Casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt".

Adverb

1. Without previous thought or preparation; "couldn't give the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to Canada"; "she had made these remarks offhandedly".

2. In a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Offhanded

Crosswords: Offhanded

Albanian

i çastit (extemporary, flashy, instant, instantaneous, momentary, offhand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

безцеремонен (abrupt, blunt, brusque, gay, offhand, summary, unceremonious). (various references)

German

spontan (impulsive, impulsively, snap, spontaneous, spontaneously, unprompted, unrehearsed). (various references)

Greek 

προχείρωσ, εκ του πρόχειρου (extempore, impromptu). (various references)

Italian

spontaneo (careless, cavalierly, natural, offhand, offhandedly, spontaneous, unaffected, unforced, unstudied, voluntary). (various references)

Pig Latin

offhandeday.(various references)

Portuguese

sem preparação (cavalier, familiarly, offhand, unprepared), sem cerimônia (cavalier, offhand, offhandedly, sociable, unceremonious, unconventional), improvisado (ad lib, cavalier, extemporary, extempore, half-cocked, impromptu, improvised, jury, makeshift, offhand, scratch, unpremeditated, unprepared), espontâneo (cavalier, free, matter-of-course, natural, offhand, self-sown, spontaneous, unasked, unbidden, unconstrained, unlaboured, unpremeditated, unprompted, unsought, unstrained, unstudied, untaught, willing). (various references)

Russian 

бесцеремонный (cavalier, offhand, presumptuous, pushy, snippy, unceremonious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nepripreman, na brzu ruku (hurriedly, impromptu, offhand, offhandedly, slapdash). (various references)

Spanish

poco ceremonioso (informal, offhand, unceremonious), improvisado (extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, improvised, makeshift, rough and ready), espontaneo (offhandedly, spontaneous). (various references)

Swedish

oförberedd (extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off hand, off the cuff, offhand, unprepared, unprovided, unrehearsed), slarvig (careless, down at heel, fribble, frivolous, inattentive, off hand, offhand, shoddy, slapdash, sloppy, slovenly, slutish, untidy), nonchalant (airy, casual, casually, cavalier, flippant, jaunty, lackadaisical, off hand, offhand). (various references)

Turkish

kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), hazırlıksız (at half cock, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, incautious, off the cuff, offhand, unprepared, unprovided, unprovided for, unready, unrehearsed), düşüncesizce yapılmış (hasty, offhand, unconsidered, unguarded). (various references)

Ukrainian

імпровізований (extemporaneous, impromptu, improvised, off the cuff, offhand, soapbox), зроблений експромтом (offhand), зроблений без підготовки (offhand), безцеремонний (brusque, cavalier, cheeky, offhand, presumptuous, snippy, unceremonious). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "offhanded": offhandedly, offhandedness, offhandednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Offhanded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Offrandes. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: handoff, offhand.

-3 letters: daffed, doffed, fonded, handed, hodden, offend.

-4 letters: anode, faded, foehn, haded, hodad, honda, honed, offed.

-5 letters: aeon, dado, daff, dead, deaf, dean, doff, dona, done, eddo, fade, fado, fane, fano, fend, feod, fohn, fond, hade, haed, haen, hand, head, hoed, hone, node, odea, ohed.

+2 letters: offhandedly.

+4 letters: offhandedness.