Offbeat vs Slum - What's the difference?
offbeat | slum |
(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.
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
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To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
As nouns the difference between offbeat and slum
is that offbeat is (music) the beats not normally accented in a measure while slum is a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.As an adjective offbeat
is unusual, unconventional, not ordinary.As a verb slum is
to visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.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
*slum
English
(wikipedia slum)Noun
(en noun)- Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge [...] you will find groups of boys [...] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber [...].
Gambling.
