'offhand' definitions:
Definition of 'offhand'
(from WordNet)
adverb
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: offhand, offhanded, offhandedly]
adverb
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: offhand, offhanded, offhandedly]
adjective
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, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, unrehearsed]
adjective
Casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt" [syn: offhand, offhanded]
Synonyms of 'offhand'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrupt,
- ad lib,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- affable,
- airily,
- airy,
- aloof,
- any old way,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- at short notice,
- at sight,
- blase,
- Bohemian,
- 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