Off-hand

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Offhand \Off"hand`\, a.
     Instant; unprepared; ready; extemporaneous; unrehearsed; as,
     an offhand speech; offhand excuses; an offhand comment. --
     adv. In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  offhand
       adj 1: with little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib
              comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous
              piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an
              extempore skit"; "an impromptu speech"; "offhand
              excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring";
              "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments"
              [syn: {ad-lib}, {extemporaneous}, {extemporary}, {extempore},
               {impromptu}, {offhanded}, {off-the-cuff}, {unrehearsed}]
       2: casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner";
          "she treated most men with offhand contempt" [syn: {offhanded}]
       adv 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"
              [syn: {offhanded}, {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" [syn: {offhanded},
           {offhandedly}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  off-hand
       adv : without preparation; "I don't know the figures off-hand"
             [syn: {ex tempore}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  161 Moby Thesaurus words for "offhand":
     Bohemian, abrupt, ad lib, ad libitum, ad-lib, affable, airily,
     airy, aloof, any old way, any which way, anyhow, at short notice,
     at sight, blase, brusque, bunglingly, by ear, by the by,
     by the way, careless, carelessly, casual, casually, cavalier,
     clumsily, cool, cordial, cursorily, cursory, curt, degage,
     devil-may-care, disregardant, disregardful, disregardfully,
     distant, easy, easygoing, en famille, en passant, extemporaneous,
     extemporaneously, extemporarily, extemporary, extempore, familiar,
     familiarly, flippant, folksy, forgetful, forgetfully,
     free and easy, glib, gracious, haphazardly, haymish, heedless,
     heedlessly, helter-skelter, hit and miss, hit or miss, homely,
     homey, impromptu, improvisatorial, improvise, improvised,
     improviso, in passing, inattentively, incidentally, inconsiderate,
     inconsiderately, indifferent, informal, informally, insouciant,
     irregular, jury-rigged, lackadaisical, lazy, light-hearted, loose,
     makeshift, messily, natural, naturally, nonchalant, oblivious,
     off the cuff, off the hip, off-the-cuff, offhanded, offhandedly,
     on sight, once over lightly, out of hand, parenthetically,
     perfunctorily, perfunctory, plain, plainly, promiscuously,
     reckless, recklessly, regardless, regardlessly, relaxed, relaxedly,
     respectless, sans ceremonie, simple, simply, slapdash, sloppily,
     smooth, sociable, spur-of-the-moment, stopgap, superficial,
     superficially, tactless, tactlessly, thoughtless, thoughtlessly,
     unaffected, unaffectedly, unassuming, unassumingly, unceremonious,
     unceremoniously, unconcerned, unconstrained, unconstrainedly,
     unconventional, undiplomatic, ungracious, unguardedly, unheedful,
     unheedfully, unheeding, unheedingly, uninterested, unmindful,
     unmindfully, unofficial, unofficially, unpremeditated, unprepared,
     unready, unrehearsed, unsolicitous, unsolicitously, unstudied,
     untactful, unthinking, unthinkingly, unvigilantly, unwarily,
     without ceremony