Associations to the word «Offbeat»

Wiktionary

OFFBEAT, noun. (music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
OFFBEAT, noun. (slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
OFFBEAT, adjective. Unusual, unconventional, not ordinary.

Dictionary definition

OFFBEAT, noun. An unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure).
OFFBEAT, adjective. Informal terms; strikingly unconventional.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin