Offhandedly

Definitions: Offhandedly

Offhandedly

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".

Synonyms: Offhandedly

Synonyms: offhand (adv), offhanded (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Offhandedly

English words defined with "offhandedly": offhanded. (references)

"Offhandedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Offhandedly" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	13	97,576

Language		Translations for "offhandedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		menjëherë (abruptly, at once, away, directly, forthright, forthwith, immediately, impulsively, incontinently, instantly, just now, momentarily, momently, now, offhand, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, out of hand, pronto, right away, straight away, therewith). (various references)

Bulgarian		безцеремонно (offhand, summarily, without further ceremony). (various references)

Chinese		随便 (haphazard). (various references)

Czech		nedbale (anyhow, carelessly, casually, negligently, recklessly). (various references)

French		avec désinvolture. (various references)

German		spontane (spontaneously). (various references)

Hebrew		ברשול (jauntily). (various references)

Hungarian		könnyedén (airily, at ease, easily, facilely, hand over hand, jauntily, light, lightly, off-handedly, readily, trippingly, with ease), fesztelenül (breezily, cavalierly, coolly, off-hand, with great ease of manners), fölényesen (off-hand). (various references)

Italian		estemporaneo, improvvisato (offhand, offhanded), disinvoltamente (casually, easily), con disinvoltura, all'improvviso (offhand, offhanded). (various references)

Pig Latin		offhandedlyay

Portuguese		sem preparação (cavalier, familiarly, half crown, offhand, unprepared), sem cerimônia (cavalier, informal, offhanded, sociable, unceremonious, unconventional), de maneira desenvolta, bruscamente (abruptly, bluffly, harshly, roughly, sharply, short, shortly, slap bang, suddenly). (various references)

Russian		небрежно (in a perfunctory manner, jauntily, roughly, sloppily). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		snogu, smesta (immediately, offhand, once: at once, straightway), nepripremano, na brzu ruku (hurriedly, impromptu, offhand, offhanded, slapdash). (various references)

Spanish		sin miramientos, sin ceremonias (Matey), descortésmente, con informalidad, bruscamente (abrasively, abruptly, bluffly, bluntly, brusquely, crustily, roughly, sharply, short, suddenly). (various references)

Swedish		slarvigt (anyhow, anyway, carelessly, off hand, offhand, slapdash). (various references)

Ukranian		недбало (carelessly, casually, negligently, slovenly), нашвидкуруч (offhand), безцеремонно (offhand). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-f-f-h-l-n-o-y"
	-2 letters: fanfolded, offhanded.
	-4 letters: fadedly, fanfold, fondled, handled, handoff, hondled, leadoff, offhand.
	-5 letters: adenyl, daffed, daledh, dandle, deadly, deafly, doffed, dynode, enfold, enhalo, felony, flayed, foaled, folded, fonded, fondle, fondly, haloed, handed, handle, hodden, holden, hondle, hoyden, landed, layoff, loaded, loafed, loaned, noddle, noyade, offend, yaffed, yodled.
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