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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Offhand \Off"hand`\, a.
     Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech;
     offhand excuses. -- adv. In an offhand manner; as, he replied
     offhand.

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 English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  off-hand
     a.
     (alternative spelling of en offhand)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  offhand
     a.
     1 Without planning or thinking ahead.
     2 careless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
     3 curt, abrupt, unfriendly.
     adv.
     Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  off-hand
     a.
     (alternative spelling of en offhand)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  offhand
     a.
     1 Without planning or thinking ahead.
     2 careless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
     3 curt, abrupt, unfriendly.
     adv.
     Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  off-hand
     a.
     (alternative spelling of en offhand)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  offhand
     a.
     1 Without planning or thinking ahead.
     2 careless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
     3 curt, abrupt, unfriendly.
     adv.
     Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  off-hand
     a.
     (alternative spelling of en offhand)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  offhand
     a.
     1 Without planning or thinking ahead.
     2 careless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
     3 curt, abrupt, unfriendly.
     adv.
     Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  offhand
     Englanti a.
     epäkohteliaan välinpitämätön tai kiinnostumaton, kylmäkiskoinen
     Englanti adv.
     suoralta kädeltä, oikopäätä

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  offhand
     Engelska a.
     1 på rak arm, oförberedd
     2 nonchalant

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  مرتجلا

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  offhand //ˌɔfˈhænd// 
  1. небрежен
  careless
  2. безцеремонен
  curt, unfriendly
  3. импровизиран
  without planning or thinking ahead

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  rovnou

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  okamžitě

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  bez přípravy

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  bez obalu

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  bez okolků

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/ 
  spatra

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/ 
  nepřipravený

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/ 
  pohotový

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/ 
  nedbalý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/ 
  ledabylý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/ 
  improvizovaný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
   [Br.] lässig, flapsig 
        "be offhand about sth."  - etw. lapidar abtun
        "be offhand with sb."  - jdn. kurz abfertigen

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  spontan, aus dem Stegreif, aus dem Handgelenk, aus der Lamäng [Nordwestdt.] , einfach so 
           Note: improvisiert
        "I can't tell you offhand."  - Das kann ich Ihnen so spontan nicht sagen.
     Synonyms: off the cuff, just like that
  

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  off-hand /ˈɒfhˈand/ 
  1. बिना~सोचे~विचारे
        "He behaved in a very off-hand manner."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  bez prethodne pripreme, bez priprem, nepripravan, neuljudan, neusiljen, neučtiv

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  off-hand /ˈɒfhˈand/
  1. kapásból
  2. fölényesen
  3. fesztelen
  4. fölényes
  5. rögtönzött
  6. fesztelenül
  7. spontán

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  off-hand /ɒfˈhænd/
  I.    bezceremonialny
  II.    od ręki, od razu

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  offhand /ɒfhˈand/
  1. düşünmeden yapılmış, rasgele yapılmış
  2. düşünmeden, rasgele.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɔfˈhænd/

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

  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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 即时的,即席的,无准备的;
  ad. 即时地,即席地,随便地;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 即时的,即席的,无准备的
     ad. 即时地,即席地,随便地

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