offbeat
adj.
not coinciding with the regular beat (Music); unusual (Slang); unconventional (Slang)
Offbeat
OffBeat (magazine)
OffBeat is a monthly music magazine in
New Orleans, Louisiana first published in
1988. It mainly focuses on the music scene of New Orleans and Louisiana. It covers wide range of local music including
R&B,
blues, brass bands,
jazz,
cajun music,
zydeco, to
rock.Its support for the local music community has greatly contributed to the promotion of the scene. The club listings and disc reviews covering local independent labels are indispensable information source for the New Orleans music lovers. Publisher and Editor-in-Chief is Jan A. Ramsey. It is published by OffBeat, Inc.
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offbeat
Adjective
1. informal terms; strikingly unconventional
(synonym) far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out
(similar) unconventional
offbeat
nonconventional, different from the usual The movie was very offbeat which is just the kind of movie that I like.
offbeat
Synonyms and related words:
Bohemian, bar beat, beat, bizarre, breakaway, contrasting, counter, deviant, different, disparate, dissimilar, divergent, diverse, downbeat, eccentric, far out, freaky, free and easy, fringy, hardly like, heretical, heterodox, hippie, idiosyncratic, informal, innovative, kinky, maverick, nonuniform, not cricket, not done, not kosher, novel, odd, off, original, out, outlandish, outre, peculiar, pulsation, pulse, queer, rare, recherche, scarcely like, strange, sui generis, throb, unalike, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfashionable, unheard-of, unidentical, unique, unlike, unmatched, unordinary, unorthodox, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, unthought-of, unusual, unwonted, upbeat, way out, weird, weirdo
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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