| off | (adjective) not in operation or operational | - |
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| (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: cancelled |
| (adjective) not performing or scheduled for duties | - |
| (adjective) in an unpalatable state | Synonyms: sour, turned |
| (adjective) below a satisfactory level | - |
| (adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: away |
| (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: away, forth |
| (adverb) no longer on or in contact or attached | - |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, polish off, remove, slay |
| offal | (noun) viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans | - |
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| offbeat | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out |
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| (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: upbeat |
| offence | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offense, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offense |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offense, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offense, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offense |
| offenceless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenseless |
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| offend | (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, spite, wound |
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| (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: pique |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, transgress, violate |
| offended | (adjective) emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed | Synonyms: injured, pained |
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| offender | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: wrongdoer |
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| offending | (adjective) offending against or breaking a law or rule | - |
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| offense | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offence |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offence |
| offenseless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenceless |
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| offensive | (adjective) unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses | - |
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| (adjective) causing anger or annoyance | - |
| (adjective) for the purpose of attack rather than defense | - |
| (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: violative |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile |
| (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offense |
| offensively | (adverb) aggressively | - |
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| (adverb) in an obnoxious manner | Synonyms: objectionably, obnoxiously |
| (adverb) in an unpleasantly offensive manner | - |
| offensiveness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: distastefulness, odiousness |
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| offer | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offering |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offering |
| (verb) put forward for consideration | - |
| (verb) threaten to do something | - |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, pop the question, propose |
| (verb) produce or introduce on the stage | - |
| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, tender |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, provide, render, supply |
| (verb) make available for sale | - |
| (verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) agree freely | Synonyms: volunteer |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: provide, put up |
| (verb) present as an act of worship | Synonyms: offer up |
| offerer | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offeror |
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| offering | (noun) the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity | Synonyms: oblation |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) money contributed to a religious organization; item or items contributed to a religious organization for religious purposes | - |
| offeror | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offerer |
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| offertory | (noun) the offerings of the congregation at a religious service | - |
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| offhand | (adjective) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate | Synonyms: offhanded |
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| (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhanded, unrehearsed |
| (adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhanded, offhandedly |
| (adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhanded, offhandedly |
| offhanded | (adjective) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate | Synonyms: offhand |
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| (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, unrehearsed |
| (adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhand, offhandedly |
| (adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhand, offhandedly |
| offhandedly | (adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhand, offhanded |
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| (adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhand, offhanded |
| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
| (noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
| (noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
| (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
| official | (adjective) having official authority or sanction | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an office | - |
| (adjective) verified officially | - |
| (adjective) (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: prescribed |
| (noun) someone who administers the rules of a game or sport | - |
| (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: functionary |
| officialdom | (noun) people elected or appointed to administer a government | Synonyms: government officials |
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| officialese | (noun) the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure | - |
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| officialise | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialize |
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| officialize | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialise |
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| officially | (adverb) in an official role | - |
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| (adverb) with official authorization | Synonyms: formally |
| officiant | (noun) a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service | - |
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| officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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| (verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
| officiating | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiation, refereeing, umpirage |
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| officiation | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, refereeing, umpirage |
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| (noun) the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty | - |
| officious | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling |
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| officiously | (adverb) in an officious manner | - |
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| officiousness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, meddlesomeness |
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| offing | (noun) the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area | - |
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| (noun) the near or foreseeable future | - |
| offish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: standoffish |
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| offload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: unlade, unload |
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| (verb) transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data | - |
| offprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: reprint, separate |
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| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| offset | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: set-back, setoff |
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| (noun) a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper | Synonyms: offset printing |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: runner, stolon |
| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| (verb) produce by offset printing | - |
| (verb) create an offset in | - |
| (verb) cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface | - |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: cancel, set off |
| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: countervail |
| offshoot | (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, outgrowth |
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| offshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: seaward |
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| (adjective) at some distance from the shore | - |
| (adverb) away from shore; away from land | - |
| offside | (adjective) illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck | Synonyms: offsides |
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| (noun) (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.) | - |
| (adverb) illegally in advance of the ball or puck | - |
| offsides | (adjective) illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck | Synonyms: offside |
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| offspring | (noun) any immature animal | Synonyms: young |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
| (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, progeny |
| offstage | (adjective) situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience | - |
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| (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: backstage |
| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
| (adverb) behind the scenes; not on stage | - |
| (adverb) not in public | - |