off-center

Or off-cen·tered

[awf-sen-ter, of-]

adjective

1. not centered; diverging from the exact center.

2. unconventional; eccentric.

   off-center characters who disrupt other people's lives.

Word History and Origins

Origin of off-center¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The walls were bare except for a single cheap clock that hung off-center on the wall next to the television, like it was counting down the minutes until you disappeared into a pit of despair.

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Cave’s grand piano is on the other side, off-center presumably to give him the room he requires.

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Physicists can adjust the cylinder’s resonant frequency, trying to match and amplify the tiny radio signal from any axions, by repositioning one or two off-center tuning rods.

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Scientists have the first direct evidence that the powerful magnetic fields created in off-center collisions of atomic nuclei induce an electric current in "deconfined" nuclear matter.

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No Proscenium’s Nelson says the Ministry of Peculiarities doesn’t upend escape room conventions so much as set them off-center.

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