Offbeat vs Original - What's the difference?
offbeat | original |
(music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
(slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
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Unusual, unconventional, not ordinary.
(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
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, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
As nouns the difference between offbeat and original
is that offbeat is (music) the beats not normally accented in a measure while original is original.As an adjective offbeat
is unusual, unconventional, not ordinary.offbeat
English
Alternative forms
* off-beat, off beatNoun
(en noun)- The congregation clapped along on the offbeat .
- No one dignified such offbeats by responding to their outcries. Today, the "knockers of progress" have become a force that cannot be ignored.
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- In addition to creating a web of stories that will be passed through many generations, these offbeats usually strengthen the fiber of their particular hobby...
Adjective
(en adjective)- He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing.
Anagrams
*original
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original