ALL meanings of offbeat
off·beat
O o - noun offbeat Not coinciding with the beat. 1
- adjective offbeat unconventional 1
- adjective offbeat music: unaccented 1
- adjective offbeat differing from the usual or expected; unconventional: an offbeat comedian. 1
- noun offbeat Music. an unaccented beat of a measure. 1
- adjective offbeat If you describe something or someone as offbeat, you think that they are different from normal. 0
- noun offbeat any of the normally unaccented beats in a bar, such as the second and fourth beats in a bar of four-four time. They are stressed in most rock and some jazz and dance music, such as the bossa nova 0
- adjective offbeat unusual, unconventional, or eccentric 0
- adjective offbeat (as noun) 0
- noun offbeat any of the beats of a measure that have weak, or secondary, accents 0
- adjective offbeat with a strong, or primary, accent placed on beats that usually receive a weak, or secondary, accent 0
- adjective offbeat not conforming to the usual pattern or trend; unconventional, unusual, strange, etc. 0